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Should I kill or rather not?

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Thanks are rightly due to the three interviewers mentioned in footnote 1: Nora Saager, Pedro Lucas and Virgílio Azevedo. This work was supported by FCT-Portugal/MEC through grant NOVA-LINCS UID/CEC/04516/2013.

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  1. Professor Emeritus of Departamento de Informática, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

    Luis Moniz Pereira

  2. NOVA-LINCS research centre, Departamento de Informática, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

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This is a joint synopsis, in English, of 3 interviews on the subject of “Machine Ethics” given by the author in 2018. Nora Saager, a science journalist for the German “P. M. Magazine”, conducted one of them. The original, in German, came out in its February 2018 issue. Another was conducted by journalist Pedro Lucas for the feature “Um Café Com…” of “Men’s Health” magazine. The original, in Portuguese, was published in its January 2018 issue. Journalist Virgílio Azevedo, for his regular feature “O Futuro do Futuro” in the weekly “Expresso”, conducted the third. The original, in Portuguese, was published on 28 April 2018. I thank the 3 journalists for permission to utilize my fusion and English translation of selected parts of the above-mentioned material.

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Pereira, L.M. Should I kill or rather not?. AI & Soc 34, 939–943 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-018-0850-8

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