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  • “From Machinery of Morality to Machine Morals”: moral and ethics in AI
  • Nov 2020
  • Luís Moniz Pereira, emeritus Full Professor at FCT NOVA, Department of Informatics, and researcher at NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics (NOVA LINCS), is one of the invited authors for the book “Essays on Science, Culture and Scientific Policy”, edited by Centro Nacional de Cultura. His essay "From Machinery of Morality to Machine Morals" addresses key issues of ethics and moral in Artificial Intelligence.

    The book "Essays on Science, Culture and Scientific Policy", brings together a set of essays on central themes of Portuguese scientific policy, and was launched on the National Day of Scientific Culture, which is celebrated in Portugal on November 24. The assembled essays are authored by personalities who participated in the cycle of round-tables “Intergenerational Dialogues: Conversation about Science, Culture and Scientific Policy” organized by Centro Nacional de Cultura in 2019.

    The book can be read and downloaded at the following link (in Portuguese): e-Book: Essays on Science, Culture and Scientific Policy.