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In conclusion, I have tried to argue that the teleological
ethical theory can be more suitable for designing ethical
autonomous (and also conscious) robots. A lot of tasks
still remain concerning spelling out in detail how such
ethical design according to this principle is like in
practical detail. In the end, robots that are capable of
thinking for themselves, relying not on algorithmic rules
but on their own judgments, should prove to perform
better and approach the model of perfection for robotkind
better than their algorithmic counterparts.
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