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Artificial moral agents: saviors or destroyers?

Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen: Review of moral machines: teaching robots right from wrong. Oxford University Press, 2009, xi + 275 pp, ISBN 978-0-19-537404-9

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  2. The Saul Kripke Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, USA

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Buechner, J. Artificial moral agents: saviors or destroyers?. Ethics Inf Technol 12, 363–370 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-010-9238-2

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