In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” By that metric, America (and every other nation that gorges itself ...

Semi-autonomous and autonomous machines and robots can become moral machines using annotated decision trees containing ethical assumptions or justifications for interactions with animals.

A fairly young and dynamic discipline, the study of machine ethics is geared towards humans. However, now the field is being pushed towards animals to protect them from harm since they cannot make ...

Extremist protesters have made their statements this year with firebombs directed at researchers’ homes, but even students with no penchant for violence voice misgivings about working with animals.

What would it take to teach a machine to make ethical decisions? Using neural network technology, a research team at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence headed by Dr. Yejin Choi recently ...

What would it take to teach a machine to make ethical decisions? Using neural network technology, a research team at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence headed by Dr. Yejin Choi recently ...

Veterinary and Animal Ethics documents the proceedings of the First International Conference on Veterinary and Animal Ethics, held in London, UK, in 2011. The major topics that were presented at the ...

t’s not too early to think about how machines and artificial intelligence (AI) will make tough but ethical decisions. How will an autonomous car facing an unavoidable accident decide whether to injure ...