Artificial Morality: Virtuous Robots for Virtual Games

by Peter Danielson

Overview

This book explores the role of artificial intelligence in the development of a claim that morality is person-made and rational. Professor Danielson builds moral robots that do better than amoral competitors in a tournament of games like the Prisoners Dilemma and Chicken. The book thus engages in current controversies over the adequacy of the received theory of rational choice. It sides with Gauthier and McClennan, who extend the devices of rational choice to include moral constraint. Artificial Morality goes further, by promoting communication, testing and copying of principles and by stressing empirical tests.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415076913
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/03/1992
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Peter Danielson

Table of Contents

Part I Method 1 RATIONALITY AND MORALITY 2 FUNDAMENTAL JUSTIFICATION AND GAMES 3 NATURE AND ARTIFICE Part II Rational constraint 4 CONDITIONAL CO-OPERATION 5 RECIPROCAL CO-OPERATION 6 A MORAL MONSTER? Part III Flexibility, information and acquiescence 7 FLEXIBLE PLAYERS 8 INFORMATION AND ITS COSTS 9 CHICKEN 10 DISCRIMINATION, FAIRNESS AND SANCTIONS 11 CONCLUSION