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title: "Responsible Computers?"
authors:
  - "Yorick Wilks"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/256"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/0256.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1985
pages: "1279-1279"
track: "General"
keywords:
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# Responsible Computers?

Yorick Wilks

*Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1279-1279.

## Abstract

The position paper argues that , on one coherent philosophical position, we can now say that computers have human attributes, and then go on to dicuss the route by which blame and punishment might be applied to them, and how they might be said to take on social obligations.