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Commercial and military decision-makers frequently express concerns about fully autonomous agents. There is an inherent distrust of anything intelligent not under human control. What can we, as agent researchers, do to alleviate these concerns? Ethically, we should have a sense of responsibility regarding the types of artifacts that we release into society. Isaac Asimov, the science fiction writer, addressed such issues in his Laws of Robotics [1].
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Gordon-Spears, D.F. (2003). Asimov’s Laws: Current Progress. In: Hinchey, M.G., Rash, J.L., Truszkowski, W.F., Rouff, C., Gordon-Spears, D. (eds) Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems. FAABS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2699. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45133-4_23
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