Ethics for Bots

Mowbray, Miranda

HP Development Company

关键词: bots;    online communities;    MOO;   

RP-ID  :  HPL-2002-48R1

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: HP Labs

【 摘 要 】

The rise of online communities has led to a phenomenon of real-time, multiperson interaction via online personas. Some online community technologies allow the creation of bots (personas that act according to a software programme rather than being directly controlled by a human user) in such a way that it is not always easy to tell a bot from a human within an online social space. In this paper I illustrate ethical issues in bot design by discussing some dilemmas and problems of policing bots, with real examples from Little Italy MOO, an online community, and elsewhere. 6 Pages