Semi-autonomous and autonomous machines and robots can become moral machines using annotated decision trees containing ethical assumptions or justifications for interactions with animals.

CHICAGO -- The cyborg aims for the light and wheels forward. Another light flashes and the cyborg turns. Again and again, like a bull in a ring, the cyborg charges, sometimes veering right, sometimes ...

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A fairly young and dynamic discipline, the study of machine ethics is geared towards humans. However, now the field is being pushed towards animals to protect them from harm since they cannot make ...

In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” By that metric, America (and every other nation that gorges itself ...

CHICAGO — The cyborg aims for the light and wheels forward. Another light flashes, and the cyborg turns. Again and again, like a bull in a ring, the cyborg charges, sometimes veering right, sometimes ...

Whether it's a seagull trying to swallow a camera or a Roomba terrorizing a gaggle of kittens, the bitter rivalry between animals and gadgets runs deep, as you will see in the videos below. Let's hope ...

Many documentaries steeped in social or political issues get very insistent and often very noisy in expressing a point of view. Michael Moore is of course the model for effective, engaging and ...