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Database System Concepts

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Author:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Publisher:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

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The ethics of non-human agents: A growing number of digital agents are non-human and in some cases are increasingly capable of autonomy (robots, drones, self-driving cars, etc.). Algorithms are responsible for decisions in a wide range of areas these days (for example in stock marketing trading), and any algorithm that makes decisions is not ethically neutral. Some algorithms are adaptive, able to learn and adjust their behavior over time. We have to understand how such actors affect us and our societies. Autonomous systems, such as self-driving cars will react to changing conditions and deal with circumstances that they have never encountered before, without human intervention. Does it make sense to think of these technological systems as ethical agents in their own right? Is there a fundamental ethical priciple based on 'global' human values? What is the ethical status of machines that are increasingly autonomous and might even, at some point, be described as conscious?

From this article, what would be one real-life example of some emerging or new technology would this ethical issue/dilemma applies to.

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