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Is it Reasonable to Apply the Term Responsible to Non-Human Entities?

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This chapter summarizes the prudential arguments for assigning responsibility in safety-critical applications to the systems themselves (rather than to their human own­ers, programmers or users), examines the beneficial consequences of this assignation, and defends its legal and philosophical propriety.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Information Systems Engineering, University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish Street, W1M 8JS, London, UK

    Colin Myers BA (Hons), MSc & Tracy Hall BA (Hons), MSc

  2. Worldwide Information Systems, NCR, 915 High Road, N. Finchley, N12 8QJ, London, UK

    Dave Pitt BA (Hons), MSc

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  1. Colin Myers BA (Hons), MSc
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  1. School of Computer Science and Information Systems Engineering, University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish Street, W1M 8JS, London, UK

    Colin Myers BA (Hons), MSc  & Tracy Hall BA (Hons), MSc  & 

  2. Worldwide Information Systems, NCR, 915 High Road, N. Finchley, N12 8QJ, London, UK

    Dave Pitt BA (Hons), MSc

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Myers, C., Hall, T., Pitt, D. (1997). Is it Reasonable to Apply the Term Responsible to Non-Human Entities?. In: Myers, C., Hall, T., Pitt, D. (eds) The Responsible Software Engineer. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0923-5_15

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