Alan Winfield's Web Log

Robot accidents are inevitable. These days the likelihood of serious accidents involving industrial robots is pretty low (but not zero), bec...

This morning I took part in the first panel at the BSI conference The Digital World: Artificial Intelligence .  The subject of the panel...

The reality is that AI is in fact generating a large number of jobs already. That is the good news. The bad news is that they are mostly - t...

Readers of his blog will know that one of the many things ethical I worry about is the energy cost of AI . As part of the work I'm doing...

The climate emergency brooks no compromise: every human activity or artefact is either part of the solution or it is part of the problem.  I...

In part 2 a few weeks ago I outlined  a Python implementation of the ethical black box. I described the key data structure - a dictionary wh...

In the last few days I started some serious coding. The first for 20 years, in fact, when I built the software for the BRL LinuxBots . (The ...

Big day today. My online course on Robot Ethics has been launched on the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Academy web pages ...

     Now it’s personal. I’ve just had a phone call from my mom.  Fine, you might think, but it’s sure as hell not fine. She’s been dead 5 y...

For this story, written as the second exercise in my Writing Short Stories course back in June , I attempted a story without dialogue. I lov...

Back in June I signed up for an online course on Writing Short Stories (the next steps) , run by the Bishopsgate Institute . The course was ...

A few weeks ago I gave a short paper* at the excellent International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2020) , outlining a cas...

This week I have been attending (virtually) the excellent RoboPhilosophy conference, and this morning gave a plenary talk "Why did you...