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humans and to make it possible for humans to do
things they could not have done before. However,
this will not happen unless humans continue to take
responsibility for their design and their behavior.
These recommendations are put forward to that end.

Author Information
Deborah G. Johnson is the Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics in the School of Engineering of the University of Virginia; email: dgj7p@
virginia.edu.
Merel Noorman is a postdoctoral fellow at the eHumanities Group of the Royal Netherlands Academy of
Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Acknowledgment
This work was part of a National Science Foundation
funded project (Ethics for Developing Technologies:
An Analysis of Artificial Agent Technology, NSF
Award # 105845). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this paper
are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect
the views of the National Science Foundation.
The draft recommendations discussed in this article were presented as part of a workshop, Anticipatory Ethics, Responsibility and Artificial Agents, held
at the University of Virginia on January 24-25, 2013.

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