TY - JOUR
AU - Damm, Lisa
AB - Philosophical Psychology Vol. 25, No. 1, February 2012, 149–153 Book review Wendell Wallach & Colin Allen New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 275 pages, ISBN: 0195374045 (hbk); $29.95 Wallach and Allen believe that soon the circle of moral agents is going to expand to include ‘‘artificial moral agents’’ (AMAs). This premise is briefly argued for in the course of the first three chapters, which broach questions regarding whether or not society needs or should want AMAs. The bulk of the book and the most interesting chapters are devoted to pursuing the question of how to best implement moral decision making in computers and robots. The book concludes with a speculative chapter that highlights the future legal and public policy issues that might be encountered in the course of developing AMAs. In this review, I highlight the more interesting points of the primary chapters in the book, followed by a brief commentary on some of the philosophical questions raised by the authors. By appealing to examples such as military robots that have been deployed in Iraq, Wallach and Allen begin their book with a quite sensible argument: there is an immediate need to think about moral reasoning in robots given 
TI - Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong
JF - Philosophical Psychology
DO - 10.1080/09515089.2011.583029
DA - 2012-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/moral-machines-teaching-robots-right-from-wrong-cedje41Il3
SP - 149
EP - 153
VL - 25
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -