The Defense Department's current policy for the deployment of autonomous weapons systems requires that humans maintain "meaningful" control, and ethical discussions of fully autonomous systems focus on whether they could ever successfully mimic the battlefield decisions of a reasonable commander.
In order to help society prepare for their arrival, the Royal Academy of Engineering has published a report on the social, legal and ethical issues surrounding autonomous systems.
Particular areas of focus include edge computing, natural language, autonomous vehicles, agritech, human-machine interface technology and ethical computing.
Ethics experts and regulators set privacy and ethical standards to protect research subjects, who were portrayed as autonomous but too vulnerable and disorganized to protect themselves.
Sharkey recently started the Foundation for Responsible Robotics to help us avoid the "potential societal and ethical hazards" from the widespread application of autonomous robots.
The IEEE's "Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems" is one of the most ambitious offerings for AI ethical guidelines.
The goal of this project was to combine computational methods, philosophy, game theory and psychology to develop robust and ethical moral artificial intelligence ("moral AI") to direct autonomous agents.
Legal and ethical consensus in light of the Carder case is that pregnant women, as autonomous adults and full citizens, do not lose their constitutional rights to privacy and bodily integrity in light of their pregnancy (Pollitt 1990).
Provided the impact of food choice on human health and ethical concerns associated to food consumption, we considered those two social issues as autonomous dimensions of sustainability, thus ending with five sustainability dimensions.
However, extending the loss of freedom experienced in prison to the loss of autonomous decision making of a prisoner regarding their own body is inappropriate and at odds with the mandated requirement, and ethical imperative, to provide community-standard healthcare.
More recently, possibilities ranging from autonomous weapons to eugenic application of genetic editing tools have made it clear that the rate of discoveries has outpaced our ability to predict their moral and ethical consequences.
