•  140
    Enveloping the world for AI
    The Philosophers' Magazine 54 (54): 20-21. 2011.
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    Editorial introduction – ethics of new information technology
    with Philip Brey and Frances Grodzinsky
    Ethics and Information Technology 7 (3). 2005.
    This special issue of Ethics and Information Technology focuses on the ethics of new and emerging information technology (IT). The papers have been selected from submissions to the sixth international conference on Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE2005), which took place at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, July 17–19, 2005.
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    On the morality of artificial agents
    Minds and Machines 14 (3): 349-379. 2004.
    Artificial agents (AAs), particularly but not only those in Cyberspace, extend the class of entities that can be involved in moral situations. For they can be conceived of as moral patients (as entities that can be acted upon for good or evil) and also as moral agents (as entities that can perform actions, again for good or evil). In this paper, we clarify the concept of agent and go on to separate the concerns of morality and responsibility of agents (most interestingly for us, of AAs). We conc…Read more
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    Technological unemployment, leisure occupation, and the human project
    Philosophy and Technology 27 (2): 143-150. 2014.
    In 1930, John Maynard Keynes published a masterpiece that should be a compulsory reading for any educated person, a short essay entitled Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (Keynes 1930, 1972).All references are from the 1931 online version of Keynes (1930) provided by Project Gutenberg, so pages are left unspecified. I am sure Keynes would have found such free access to information coherent with the philosophy of the essay. It was an attempt to see what life would be like if peace, pro…Read more