Creating Ethically Sensitive Machines for Medical Use

HARTFORD ETHICS GROUP

Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008 - 7pm

Venue: Walton Room, 2nd floor of the Trinity College Library
Directions: http://library.trincoll.edu/about/hours.cfm

Speakers:

Susan Leigh Anderson
Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Connecticut

and Michael Anderson
Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Hartford

on

“Creating Ethically Sensitive Machines for Medical Use”.

Drs. Anderson will discuss adding an ethical dimension to machines, philosophical concerns with the project, and their efforts to create a medical ethics advisor system and an eldercare system for reminding patients to take medications and determining when a overseer should be contacted when the patient doesn’t comply.

Background reading:

Machine Ethics website
http://www.machineethics.org

Machine Ethics Consortium
http://www.machineethics.com

Anderson, Michael and Susan Leigh Anderson. 2007. “Machine Ethics: Creating an Ethical Intelligent Agent,” AI Magazine 28(4).
http://ieet.org/archive/AIMagFinal.pdf

Anderson, Michael, Susan Leigh Anderson, and Chris Armen. 2006. “An Approach to Computing Ethics,” IEEE Intelligent Systems.
http://ieet.org/archive/IEEE-Anderson.pdf

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The Hartford Ethics Group is a monthly discussion group on bioethics themes corrdinated by James Hughes and Miller Brown of Trinity College. For more information, or to submit a topic, please contact James Hughes at: james.hughes at trincoll.edu