Tag: ethics
Pain in the Machine
Can robots experience pain?
The Agent-Age Problem for Consequentialism
Suspend your disbelief for a moment, and imagine the 6-year-old daughter of a major world leader travels with her father to a major nuclear launch site. She is left unsupervised, and happens to wander into the launch room. There, out of curiosity, she presses the big red button. This launches a nuclear weapon that immediately…