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[31 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality

Title: Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality
Author: Robert M. Geraci
Subject: Robotics, AI, Philosophy of Religion
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published Date: March 5, 2010
Link: Amazon.com.

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[4 Dec 2009 | One Comment | ]
Wired For War

Title: Wired For War
Author: Peter Warren Singer
Subject: Robotics
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published Date: January 27 2009
Link: Wired For War: Amazon.com.
Below Content is from the author’s website (Wired for War)
The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
What happens when science fiction becomes battlefield reality?
An amazing revolution is taking place on the battlefield, starting to change not just how wars are fought, but also the politics, economics, laws, and ethics that surround war itself. This upheaval is already afoot — remote-controlled drones take out terrorists in Afghanistan, while the number of unmanned systems …

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[24 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
Ethics and Robotics

Title: Ethics and Robotics
Author: Rafael Capurro and Michael Nagenborg
Subject:Philosophy
Publisher: IOS Press
Published Date: August 15, 2009
Link: Amazon
“Ethics and robotics are two academic disciplines, one dealing with the moral norms and values underlying implicitly or explicitly human behavior and the other aiming at the production of artificial agents, mostly as physical devices, with some degree of autonomy based on rules and programmes set up by their creators. Robotics is also one of the research fields where the convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science is currently taking place with large societal …

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[24 Nov 2009 | One Comment | ]
Killer Robots

Title: Killer Robots
Author: Armin Krishnan
Subject: Military
Publisher: Ashgate
Published Date: July 28, 2009
Link: Amazon
* eBook also available from Amazon.

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[5 Sep 2009 | One Comment | ]
Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots

Title: Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots
Author: Ronald Arkin
Subject: Military
Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Published Date: May 27 2009
Link: Amazon

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[1 Mar 2009 | One Comment | ]
Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships – by David Levy

Title: Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships
Author: David Levy
Subject: Love, Sex
Publisher: Harper
Published Date: November 6, 2007
Link: Amazon

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[1 Mar 2009 | One Comment | ]
Springer Handbook of Robotics – Chapter 64: Roboethics

Title: Springer Handbook of Robotics
Authors (Ch. 64): Gianmarco Veruggio and Fiorella Operto
Subject: Roboethics – General
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published Date: 2008
Link: Springer
Description: Chapter 64 of this gigantic but excellent book discusses a brief history and future prospects of roboethics.

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[1 Mar 2009 | One Comment | ]
Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong – by Wallach and Allen

Title: Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong
Authors: Colin Allen, Wendell Wallach
Subject: Philosophy of Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published Date: November 28th 2008
Link: Amazon