C. Allen

Publications
Influence

E. Zalta, U. Nodelman, C. Allen, Jack Perry
2011

Evolutionary psychology is one of many biologically informed approaches to the study of human behavior. Along with cognitive psychologists, evolutionary psychologists propose that much, if not all,… Expand

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Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong

Wendell Wallach, C. Allen
Psychology
19 November 2008

Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains. Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and military… Expand

Prolegomena to any future artificial moral agent

C. Allen, G. Varner, Jason Zinser
Psychology, Computer Science
J. Exp. Theor. Artif. Intell.
1 July 2000

As artificial intelligence moves ever closer to the goal of producing fully autonomous agents, the question of how to design and implement an artificial moral agent (AMA) becomes increasingly pressing. Expand

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: A Developed Dynamic Reference Work

C. Allen, U. Nodelman, E. Zalta
Sociology
2002

The present information explosion on the World Wide Web poses a problem for the general public and the members of an academic discipline alike, of how to find the most authoritative, comprehensive,… Expand

The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition

M. Bekoff, C. Allen, G. Burghardt
Psychology
15 June 2002

The fifty-seven original essays in this book provide a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of animal cognition. The contributors include cognitive ethologists, behavioral… Expand

Artificial Morality: Top-down, Bottom-up, and Hybrid Approaches

C. Allen, I. Smit, Wendell Wallach
Sociology
Ethics and Information Technology
1 September 2005

A principal goal of the discipline of artificial morality is to design artificial agents to act as if they are moral agents. Intermediate goals of artificial morality are directed at building into AI… Expand

Recognizing group cognition

Georg Theiner, C. Allen, R. Goldstone
Psychology, Computer Science
Cognitive Systems Research
1 December 2010

We show that groups have organization-dependent cognitive capacities that go beyond the simple aggregation of the cognitive capacities of individuals. Expand

Why Machine Ethics?

C. Allen, Wendell Wallach, I. Smit
Computer Science
IEEE Intelligent Systems
1 July 2006

Machine ethics isn't merely science fiction; it's a topic that requires serious consideration, given the rapid emergence of increasingly complex autonomous software agents and robots. Expand

Machine morality: bottom-up and top-down approaches for modelling human moral faculties

Wendell Wallach, C. Allen, I. Smit
Computer Science
AI & SOCIETY
26 March 2008

The implementation of moral decision making abilities in artificial intelligence (AI) is a natural and necessary extension to the social mechanisms of autonomous software agents and robots. Expand

Crowdsourcing the assembly of concept hierarchies

Kai Eckert, Mathias Niepert, Christof Niemann, Cameron Buckner, C. Allen, H. Stuckenschmidt
Computer Science
JCDL '10
21 June 2010

The "wisdom of crowds" is accomplishing tasks that are cumbersome for individuals yet cannot be fully automated by means of specialized computer algorithms. Expand

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