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6.141/16.405J - RSS Debate Information All links on Ethics taken shamelessy from Georgia Tech's College of Computing CS 2004 Robots and Society course (Spring 2008), circa 1 May 2008. Useful Links Ethical Implications of Robotics & Professional Responsibility Robots seen doing work of 3.5 million in Japan - Reuters, April 8, 2008 10 stats you should know about robots but never bothered googling up - IEEE, March 21, 2008 Man, 81, kills himself with shot from 'suicide robot' - UK TimesOnline, March 20, 2008 Machine and Man: Ethics and Robotics in the 21st Century - The Tech Museum of Innovation, August 16, 2007(?) AAAI: Ethical and Social Implications - AAAI, wiki Bill Joy Report (Act Now to Keep New Technologies Out of Destructive Hands) - New Perspectives Quarterly, Vol. 17 No. 3, Summer 2000 Promise and Peril - Rebuttal to Bill Joy Article by Kurzweil - Interactive Week, October 23, 2000 Are We Spiritual Machines? by George Gilder and Jay W. Richards - KurzweilAI.net, June 18th 2002 Wired Article: Robots and the Rest of Us by Bruce Sterling - Wired, May 2004 Robots and Society - The British Council, date UNK Ethical Issues in Robotics, Bionics, and AI by Guglielmo Tamburrini - Universite di Napoli Federico II, May 20, 2005 (in Italian) Robots could demand legal rights - BBC News, December 21, 2006 Top 5 Creepiest Robot Clones - Tech E-Blog, 04/29/2007 Waiting for the Great Leap ... Forward? by J. Hughes - IEET, November 2, 2007 A Robot in Every Home: The leader of the PC revolution predicts that the next hot field will be robotics by Bill Gates - Scientific American, December 16, 2006 Human and Machine Dignity - Rosalind W. Picard @ the MIT Media Lab, May 1, 1998 Sal Restivo papers, dates Various Pleo is Here! But how much punishment can a dinosaur robot take? - DVice TV, December 3, 2007 Robots evolve and learn how to lie - Discover Magazine, January 14, 2008 Organizations / Conferences Robot Ethics Lab (UBC) Roboethics Website Machine Ethics Consortium The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence Creating Friendly AI 1.0 ICRA 2005 Workshop on Robo-Ethics Social and Ethical Implications in Nanotechnology Cognitive/Computational Models & Architectures Ethical AI Patent Posing the right question (The neurology of morality is being explored) - The Economist, March 22, 2007 Scientists Draw Link Between Morality And Brain's Wiring - Wall Street Journal, May 11, 2007 Motivation and Emotion in Behavior-Based Robots - 2005 Ethics dilemma in killer bots - Australian IT, January 16, 2007 The Russell-Einstein Manifesto - July 9, 1955