Alan Winfield's Web Log

Last month we presented our paper The Case for an Ethical Black Box at Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS 2017) , University of Surr...

Here are the slides I gave yesterday morning as member of panel  Sci-Fi Dreams: How visions of the future are shaping the development of int...

Here are the slides I presented at the CogX session on Precision Ethics this afternoon. My intention with these slides was to give a 10 min...

Last week I had the pleasure of debating the question "does AI pose a threat to society?" with friends and colleagues  Christian L...

A few weeks ago I was asked to write a short op-ed on the European Parliament Law Committee's recommendations on civil law rules for rob...

Part 2: Autonomous Systems and Transparency In my previous post I argued that a wide range of AI and Autonomous Systems (from now on I wi...

Part 1: Autonomous Systems and Safety We all rely on machines. All aspects of modern life, from transport to energy, work to welfare, play...

     "She's suffering."      "What do you mean, 'suffering'. It's code. Code can't suffer."    ...

We tend to assume that automation is a process that continues - that once some human activity has been automated there's no going back. ...

Having been involved in robot ethics for some years, I was delighted when the IEEE launched its initiative on Ethical Considerations in AI ...

Like many I was excited by No Man's Sky when it was first released, but after some months (I'm only a very occasional video gamer) ...

Here are the slides for my short presentation: How do we trust our robots? A framework for ethical governance. These slides are based on the...

When I was interviewed on the Today Programme in 2014 , Justin Webb's final question was "if you can make an ethical robot, doesn...

Since Elon Musk's recent admission that he's a simulationist , several people have asked me what I think of the proposition that we...

This has been an intense but exciting week. I've been at Schloss Dagstuhl for a seminar called: Engineering Moral Agents - from Human M...

The following text was drafted in response to question 4 of the Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee Inquiry on Robotics and Artif...

Should robots be gendered? I have serious doubts about the morality of designing and building robots to resemble men or women, boys or girls...

Sooner or later there will be fatal accident caused by a driverless car. It's not a question of if, but when. What happens immediately f...

Could we make a moral machine? A robot capable of choosing or moderating its actions on the basis of ethical rules..? This was how I opened ...