本书提供了计算机伦理，计算机科学，社会科学和哲学之间的第一本系统的机器伦理指南。基于AI科学家与小说家哲学家之间的对话，该书讨论了关于可以教授道德价值观的机器以及如何教授道德价值观的重要发现。反过来，它研究人们实际想要什么样的人工智能（AI）。
人工智能在人们的日常生活中的主要后果是什么？为了与人类共存和合作，机器需要道德，但是我们应该教他们哪些道德价值观？此外，我们如何实现仁爱的AI？这些只是本书中仔细研究过的一些问题，一方面提供了有关AI的道德问题的全面说明，另一方面也提供了该技术的强大功能和潜在利益的及时快照。该书从介绍常识性道德原则开始，然后指导读者，帮助他们发展和理解更复杂的道德问题，并将其置于更大的技术范围内。该书使非专业读者可以访问这些主题，同时还提供了替代的阅读途径，以激发更多的专业读者。
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Contents
1 Introduction and Synopsis
2 Artificial Intelligence, Machine Autonomy and Emerging Needs
3 Intelligence:​ From Natural to Artificial
4 Intelligence and Autonomy in Artificial Agents
5 Cognition in Context:​ An Evolutionary Logic Impacting Our Individual and Collective Worlds
6 Being and Appearance, or the Omnipresence of Algorithms
7 A Question of Epistemological Nature:​ Are There Limits to AI Enabled Knowledge?​
8 Breaking Barriers:​ Symbiotic Processes
9 A Complex Cognitive Ecosystem:​ Humans and Beings of a Different Nature
10 About the End of the World, at Least as We Know It
11 Cognition with or Without Emotions?​
12 Is It Possible to Program Artificial Emotions?​ A Basis for Behaviours with Moral Connotation?​
13 After All… What is a Machine?​
14 Cognitive Prerequisites:​ The Special Case of Counterfactual Reasoning
15 Aside on Children and Youths, on Identity Construction in the Digital World
16 To Grant Decision-Making to Machines?​ Who Can and Should Apologize?​
17 Employing AI for Better Understanding Our Morals
18 Mutant Algorithms and Super Intelligences
19 Who Controls What?​
20 A New Opportunity, or the Everlasting Unresolved Problem?​