Connectionists: CfP: Special Issue "Computing Morality: Synthetic Ethical Decision Making and Behaviour"

[Matthias Rolf]

Call for contribution to the special issue:

"Computing Morality: Synthetic Ethical Decision Making and Behaviour"


Submission deadline: 31 September 2020

Website: https://digital-library.theiet.org/files/IET_CCS_CFP_CMSEDMB.pdf

Journal: IET Cognitive Computation and Systems

Submission information: 
https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/ccs


Description:
Complex autonomous systems are now being developed that are capable of 
making decisions that increasingly have moral implications, potentially 
causing emotional, physical, psychological harm to humans. Commercial 
interest and societal needs are accelerating the race to give greater 
autonomy to machines, giving rise to some new significant challenges to 
the technology, social science, and humanities communities to 
collaborate around designing and developing systems with explicit moral 
competence. The aim of this special issue is to bring together social 
and technical scientists to tackle the computational and experimental 
challenges of computing morality. We are particularly interested in 
interdisciplinary contributions in this area such as experimental 
psychology and anthropology, as well as computer science and cognitive 
science.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Machine Ethics
- Social and moral learning
- Experimental approaches to morality
- Applied moral philosophy
- Cognitive anthropology
- Autonomous moral machines
- Cognitive science
- Moral psychology
- Developmental robotics