{"id":15224,"date":"2015-07-09T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=15224"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:54:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:54:03","slug":"machine-ethics-the-robots-dilemma-boer-deng-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/machine-ethics-the-robots-dilemma-boer-deng-nature","title":{"rendered":"Machine ethics: The robot\u2019s dilemma \u2014 Boer Deng | Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdvocates argue that the rule-based approach has one major virtue: it is always clear why the machine makes the choice that it does, because its designers set the rules. That is a crucial concern for the US military, for which autonomous systems are a key strategic goal. Whether machines assist soldiers or carry out potentially lethal missions, \u2018the last thing you want is to send an autonomous robot on a military mission and have it work out what ethical rules it should follow in the middle of things\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/machine-ethics-the-robot-s-dilemma-1.17881\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAdvocates argue that the rule-based approach has one major virtue: it is always clear why the machine makes the choice that it does, because its designers set the rules. That is a crucial concern for the US military, for which autonomous systems are a key strategic goal. Whether machines assist soldiers or carry out potentially [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64603,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15224\/revisions\/64603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}