ABSTRACT

Although “there is every reason to believe that ethically sensitive machines can be created” [Anderson et al. 04], there is also widespread acknowledgment, however, regarding the diculty associated with machine ethics [Moor 06, McLaren 06]. ere are several specic problems to point out [McLaren 05]:

1. e ethical laws, codes, or principles (i.e., rules) are almost always provided in a highly conceptual, abstract level.