Isaac Asimov, the well-known science fiction writer, wrote a series of short stories and novels about robotics,including the story from the motion...

Isaac Asimov, the well-known science fiction writer, wrote a series of short stories and novels about robotics, including the story from the motion picture, I Robot. The robot in the stories were all designed with built-in circuitry that required them to operate according to the "three laws of robotics." Although Asimov did not present the laws as moral, one might choose to look at them that way. Read one or more of Asimov's stories which are collected in the book I, Robot and try to interpret the laws of robotics as a moral code for robots. How do his robots' laws compare with the moral theories we have examined here?

Stories can be found here.

http://kaitnieks.com/files/asimov_isaac__i_robot.pdf

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Moral Theories examined in Chapter 1 of Ethics in a Computing Culture:

Divine Command Theory

Cultural Relativism

Virtue Ethics

Act Utilitarianism

Rule Utilitarianism

Deontological Ethics

Contractarianism

Rawl's Theory of Justice