Empowering robots for ethical behavior

(Frontiers) Scientists at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK have developed a concept called Empowerment to help robots to protect and serve humans, while keeping themselves safe. Rather than trying to make a machine understand complex ethical questions, the concept is based on robots always seeking to keep their options open, and doing the same for the humans around them.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news