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Machine ethics
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<p>Machine ethics (or machine morality, computational morality, or computational ethics) is a part of the <a href="/facts/Ethics_of_artificial_intelligence/u7H0AbEV">ethics of artificial intelligence</a> concerned with adding or ensuring moral behaviors of <a href="/facts/Design/kR4GNeja">man-made</a> machines that use artificial intelligence, otherwise known as <a href="/facts/Intelligent_agent/8C2Q93Vw">artificial intelligent agents</a>. Machine ethics differs from other ethical fields related to <a href="/facts/Engineering/RFVg8H3I">engineering</a> and <a href="/facts/Technology/9Uav5WVR">technology</a>. It should not be confused with <a href="/facts/Computer_ethics/pbfBfSXw">computer ethics</a>, which focuses on human use of computers. It should also be distinguished from the <a href="/facts/Philosophy_of_technology/aEMrqKHP">philosophy of technology</a>, which concerns itself with technology's grander social effects. </p>