A Construction Manual for Robots' Ethical Systems Requirements, Meth

This book will help researchers and engineers in the design of ethical systems for robots, addressing the philosophical questions that arise and exploring modern applications such as assistive robots and self-driving cars.  The contributing authors a

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Robert Trappl Editor

A Construction Manual for Robots' Ethical Systems Requirements, Methods, Implementations

Cognitive Technologies Managing Editors: D.M. Gabbay J. Siekmann Editorial Board: A. Bundy J.G. Carbonell M. Pinkal H. Uszkoreit M.M. Veloso W. Wahlster M.J. Wooldridge

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/5216

Robert Trappl Editor

A Construction Manual for Robots’ Ethical Systems Requirements, Methods, Implementations

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Editors Robert Trappl Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) of the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies (OSGK) Vienna, Austria

Managing Editors Prof. Dov M. Gabbay Augustus De Morgan Professor of Logic Department of Computer Science King’s College London Strand, London, UK

ISSN 1611-2482 Cognitive Technologies ISBN 978-3-319-21547-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-21548-8

Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna Vienna, Austria

Prof. Dr. Jörg Siekmann Forschungsbereich Deduktions- und Multiagentensysteme, DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany

ISSN 2197-6635

(electronic)

ISBN 978-3-319-21548-8

(eBook)

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Preface

In 1906, the Austrian writer Alexander Roda Roda, born Sándor Friedrich Rosenfeld, wrote the story “Das Justizklavier” (The Justice Piano). In some state in the Maghreb—Roda Roda does not locate it precisely—an inventor asks for an audience with the potentate. The potentate, interested in what the man might offer him, receives him. The inventor opens a big trunk and inside there is a small piano. The potentate is curious about this piano, and the inventor explains: “You have big expenses for judges, lawyers, and attorneys, and problems wit