Call for Chapters: Rethinking Machine Ethics in the Age of Ubiquitous Technology

Editors
Jeffrey White Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Advisory Board includes:

Ron Sun - Rensselaer PolyTechnic, USA Lorenzo Magnani - University of Pavia, Italy Athanasios Raftopolous - University of Cyprus Aaron White - National Institute of Health, USA Jun Tani - KAIST Edward Moad - Qatar University Emanuele Bardone - Tallinn University, Estonia Justin White - Florida Atlantic University, USA ... and growing!

Call for Chapters

Proposals Submission Deadline: February 28, 2014 Full Chapters Due: June 30, 2014

Introduction
For release in the Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology (AHSAT) Book Series. The Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology (AHSAT) Book Series seeks to explore the ways in which society and human beings have been affected by technology and how the technological revolution has changed the way we conduct our lives as well as our behavior. The AHSAT book series aims to publish the most cutting-edge research on human behavior and interaction with technology and the ways in which the digital age is changing society. As the impacts of intelligent machines and related technologies have increasingly affected daily life, machine ethics has rapidly grown, coalescing into a unifying theater of interests, including but not limited to computer ethics, information

ethics, robot ethics and engineering ethics, science and technology policy, culture and technology, bio-medical ethics and nanotechnology, business ethics and of course traditional ethics and the philosophy of mind and the cognitive sciences, including semeiotics and philosophy of language. Binding philosophical ideals with the applied sciences, the purpose of machine ethics rests essentially in revealing the vast moral landscape facing contemporary designers, thinkers, theorists and engineers as they work to constructively integrate the fruits of technology into sociocultural routines, institutions, and economies, structures into which the future generations of humankind will be born, and naively accept as objective fact. For this reason, machine ethics is uniquely positioned to inform the shaping of the world of the 21st century, and is a field on which a great deal of responsibility for this eventual world rests. The current volume seeks contributions that point the way collectively forward from positions within the expanding field of machine ethics and its contributing disciplines. During the past decade, a few apparently stable points have resolved around apparent consensuses within machine ethics, for example: moral responsibility for autonomous and semi-autonomous technologies ultimately derives from that of their engineers and designers, traditional conceptions of ethics and moral agency cannot deliver necessary resources for the solution to current and anticipated problems of this sort, and wait-and-see incrementalism while keeping traditional moral ideals in view best serves the engineer, his industry and technology as a whole. However, as research has continued, and technology progressed, these apparently stable points of consensus are reactively shaken on a number of fronts. The expanding interests of the machine ethics community have increasingly overlapped with traditional hotbeds of moral and ethical issues, and this requires pro-active constructive integration with the broader research community, for example: in the cognitive sciences ! self-constitution and action planning in artificial agents, " dynamic systems and theories of self and motivation, ! embedded technologies and the embodied/extended/enacted mind, the socio-biological and medical sciences ! moral automata, drones, enhancements, and neuroethics of law, " (im)moral collective agents, swarms and corporate automation, robotic servants, robotic surgeons ! artificial companionship and health, education, aging, death and dying, the information sciences generally, including but certainly not limited to issues such as: ! solutions to global resource/systems/coordination problems through AI,

" automation and the financial economy ! computational methods, modeling, simulations, and their limitations and traditionally philosophical problems, such as: ! consciousness and agency " the one-to-one computational simulation of modular 'brains', computational transparency and artificial experience, selfdetermination as autonomy, artificial life ! the ethics of war and automated armed forces As increasing overlap with social sciences has often signaled successful applications in morally charged areas, moral pressures on members of the extensive community of scientists, engineers, technicians, and operators, to resolve their own ethical stances have grown, as well. Much of this pressure stems from new technologies. At the same time, however, conventional technologies are failing to natural and unnatural forces, and machine solutions are urgently needed on these fronts, as well, e.g.: ! Fukushima, ! anticipated bio-terrorism, ! natural disaster relief and preparedness. Scientist, ethicists, private researchers, businesspeople, and perhaps most importantly students and scholars of engineering and technologies are justifiably deeply concerned with these developments and the directions of research, consequences of technologies in the production of which many play a constitutive role. This all adds up to one thing. Machine ethics is increasingly important in lighting the path forward, and as progress accelerates, increasing numbers are looking to be informed on where this path is heading. This text aims to provide this information.

Objective
The present volume aims to bind together forward-looking constructive and interdisciplinary visions of moral/ethical ideals, aims, and applications of machine technology, either as extensions of ongoing engineering research or as theoretical approaches to moral/ethical problems employing machine ethics resources within the vast moral landscape confronting machine ethics researchers. The editors are seeking to draw from contributions a sense of the collective ends of the machine ethics community and those working within and through it toward the construction of a shared future. Contributions will be organized according to this theme. This work as a whole should suggest stable moral valences and point toward short and long term goals identified by uncovering shared touchstones in traditional ethics, and through active engagement with the actively unfolding tradition within machine ethics as it is recognized, today. Direct references to grounding moral principles and

aspirational moral ideals of individual authors are encouraged.

Target Audience
Policy makers, academicians, researchers, advanced-level students, technology developers, and government officials will find this text useful in furthering their research exposure to pertinent topics in machine ethics and assisting in furthering their own research efforts in this field. Casual students of machine ethics will find important critical appraisals of emerging and forecast trends in technology and of their ethical implications, and in these assays will be benefited by revealed horizons and transitions, allowing them to better position themselves regardless of the dizzyingly transitioning landscape directly confronting any single, non-expert agent.

Recommended Topics
Contributors are welcome to submit proposals for chapters on any topic that they feel is significant. The following is a non-exhaustive list of possible topics: artificial moral agency and related concerns, issues, obstacles, implementations, e.g. moral status of machines and operators, machine 'self-defense', full automation of robotic soldiers, computational models of personality and motivation, mechanisms of psychopathy and moral agency, traditional ethics/moral psychology expropriated into machine ethics contexts, e.g. Kantian models of moral agency, autonomy and "moral governors", self constitution within technologically mediated bubbles, self-organization and swarm-entities, autopoiesis and "living" codes, the perceived failure of traditional ethics/moral psychology in the context of intelligent machines, e.g. moral status, consciousness, social integration of sentience artificial and otherwise, lessons from technology for traditional ethics and cognitive sciences, overlapping moral/ethical concerns with the applied information sciences: e.g. intelligent web-crawlers, self-replicating adaptive programs, cyber-warfare and artificial life, embedded technologies and the embodied/extended/enacted mind, e.g. wearable computing and privacy, ID chips and identity, physical/mental prosthesis/extensions/amplifications, embedded technologies and natural/moral law and religion, transhumanism, humanity 2.0, e.g. merging mind and machine, organ farming and the machine body, cloning and computational theories of mind in the hope for immortality, Fukayama's criticism that transhumanists are 'the last people' who deserve to live forever, "soul chips" and identity, critical appraisals of the function and vision of transhumanist "religion",

sustainability and narcissism moral implications of artificial automata, e.g. drones and agency, moral status and ascription, organic neural nets and neuroethical correlates in law, automated analysis in surveillance, human morality vs corporate automation, e.g. AI swarm prediction, human worker replacement, automation and the financial economy, ethical consequences of automation and supporting industries, moral/psychological distress of human beings in the age of intelligent machines, robotic and automated systems and (im)moral institutions, the human automaton, health and medical sciences, e.g. AI and diagnosis, surgical robotics, robotic nurses and empathy, intelligent machines and robotics in medical procedures and diagnosis, artificial companionship, prosthetics, transplants, enhancements and artificial embodiment,, technological solutions to global problems through AI and robotics, e.g. computational solutions to global resource/resourcing problems, solutions to philosophical problems through models and simulations, simulations and forecasts, automaticity and global governance, revolutions and natural sources of conscience and moral obligation, sovereignty and information, security and surveillance, "conspiracy theories" and the ethics of "whistleblowers", Edward Snowden and mechanized "military" intelligence, freedom and facial recognition technologies, financialization and computation, recovered naturalism and sustainable living, religion and Earth at equilibrium, crisis and robotic response

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are encouraged to submit an abstract (500+ words) before February 28, 2014 articulating the aims of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 21, 2014 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted before June 30, 2014. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors will also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. NOTE: We work in English, but we do not necessarily live in an English world. This text aims to unite perspectives toward shared horizons in common terms, and these perspectives are necessarily diverse. Extensive editing for contributors who are not native to English speaking countries is expected at every step of the process, and will be performed by the primary editor at no cost to the contributor. Proposals from all interested contributors with a vision are encouraged.

Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2015.

Important Dates
1st Proposal Submission Deadline: February 28, 2014 Full chapter Submission: June 30, 2014 Review Process: June 30, 2014 August 15, 2014 Revised Chapter Submission: September 30, 2014 Submission of Final Chapters: October 30, 2014 Final Deadline: December 15, 2014

Inquiries
kaistethics@kaist.ac.kr drwhite@kaist.ac.kr Proposal submission online: Propose a chapter for this book !