Machine Ethics

Luís Moniz Pereira is Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL), Portugal. He is a member of the NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics (NOVA-LINCS) of the Informatics Department. In 2001 he was elected Fellow of the European Association of Artificial Intelligence (EurAI). In 2006 he was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa by the Technische Universität Dresden. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees and Scientific Advisory Board of IMDEA, the Madrid Institute of Software Advanced Studies, since 2006. In 1984 he became the founding President of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). His research focuses on the representation of knowledge and reasoning, logic programming, cognitive sciences and evolutionary game theory. In 2019 he received the National Medal of Scientific Merit. More information, including other awards and his publications at: http://userweb.fct.unl.pt/~lmp/António Lopes has a Licentiate's degree in Philosophy from the Portuguese Catholic University, and a Master in the same area from the Nova University of Lisbon. He is a philosophy teacher at the Anselmo de Andrade High School, where he is Coordinator of the Department of Social and Human Sciences. He published – with the Parsifal editions – the novels Como se Fosse a Última Vez (As If It Were the Last Time) and O Vale da Tentação (The Valley of Temptation). He is co-author of the book Animais que Ficaram para a História (Animals that Went Down in History), recently published by Editora Manuscrito, an imprint of the Grupo Presença. He collaborated in the book A Máquina Iluminada – Cognição e Computação (The Enlightened Machine – Cognition and Computation), authored by Luís Moniz Pereira, published by Fronteira do Caos Editores, 2016.

• Chapter 1: Introduction and Synopsis.- Chapter 2: Artificial Intelligence, machine autonomy and emerging needs.- Chapter 3: Intelligence: from natural to artificial.- Chapter 4: Intelligence and autonomy in artificial agents.- Chapter 5: Cognition in context: an evolutionary logic impacting our individual and collective worlds.- Chapter 6: Being and appearance, or the omnipresence of algorithms.- Chapter 7: A question of epistemological nature: are there limits to AI enabled knowledge.

“This book challenges us to remake the myths into which we have all been born, in terms of which we have all been educated and currently live – if only in the mode of rejection, struggling to free ourselves. The great promise of this work is that it can help us refashion our city without the extermination of older generations in order to remove resistance to change.” (Jeffrey White, Prometheus, Vol. 36 (4), December, 2020)