The Moral Instinct Explained

[RoboGuy]

The stereotypical robots of science fiction are highly intelligent butlack emotions and morals. This is mainly because folk-wisdom held thatintelligence was very easy to understand and reproduce while emotions andmorals were very hard. The reality seems to going theother way though. Primitively emoting robots are now commonplace. Willwe have robots that can reason emotionally andmorally before they can beat us at the Turing test? A fascinatingnewarticle by Steven Pinker explains the latest research on morality,showing how it provides both a basis for mathematical-like moralabsolutes while explaining the widely varying moral views seen indifferent individuals and cultures.

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