Autonomous vehicles (AVs) or self-driving cars have the potential to provide many benefits
such as improving mobility and reducing the energy and emissions consumed, travel time …

Moral psychology was shaped around three categories of agents and patients: humans,
other animals, and supernatural beings. Rapid progress in artificial intelligence has …

With the rise of artificial intelligence and automation, moral decisions that were formerly the
preserve of humans are being put into the hands of algorithms. In autonomous driving, a …

Today humanity is in the midst of the massive expansion of new and fundamental
technology, represented by advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The ongoing …

With the continuous development of society and the rapid development of science and
technology, virtual reality technology is also developing rapidly. It has been widely used in …

Ethical issues remain a significant concern for future large-scale deployment of autonomous
vehicles. Although machine ethics have been developed for a few decades, ethical decision …

This paper addresses the engineering of the ethical behaviors of autonomous industrial
cyber-physical human systems in the context of Industry 4.0. An ethical controller is …

Upon the introduction of autonomous vehicles into daily traffic, it becomes increasingly likely
that autonomous vehicles become involved in accident scenarios in which decisions have to …

Self-driving vehicles (SDVs)–above the SAE automation level 4–are designed to operate
without human intervention [1]. Due to the expected advantages attributed to SDVs, such as …

Research into the ethics of artificial intelligence is often categorized into two subareas—
robot ethics and machine ethics. Many of the definitions and classifications of the subject …