Honorary Lecturer
Selected publications
Article
Dumitriu, Anna, Holder, John, Tikka, Pia and Whitby, Blay (2010) Enactive Dialectics. Leonardo, 43 (5). pp. 484-485. ISSN 0024-094X
Whitby, Blay (2010) Oversold, unregulated, and unethical: Why we need to respond to robot nannies. Interaction Studies, 11 (2). pp. 290-294. ISSN 15720373
Whitby, Blay (2008) Sometimes it's hard to be a robot: A call for action on the ethics of abusing artificial agents. Interacting with Computers, 20 (3). pp. 326-333. ISSN 09535438
Whitby, Blay (2008) Time to wake up? ITNOW, 50 (3). pp. 8-9. ISSN 17465702
Whitby, Blay (2007) Computing Machinery and Morality. AI and Society, 22 (4). pp. 551-563. ISSN 14355655
Whitby, Blay (1993) The virtual sky is not the limit: ethics in virtual reality. Intelligent Tutoring Media, 4 (1). pp. 23-28. ISSN 0957-9133
Book
Whitby, Blay (2008) Artificial Intelligence: a beginner's guide. Oneworld Beginners' Guides . OneWorld Publications. ISBN 9781851686070
Whitby, Blay (2008) Artificial Intelligence: A Beginners Guide. Oneworld Publications. ISBN 9781851686070
Whitby, Blay (1996) Reflections on Artificial Intelligence: the legal, moral and ethical dimensions. Intellect, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9781871516685
Whitby, Blay (1988) Artificial intelligence: a handbook of professionalism. Ellis Horwood Series in Mechanical Engineering . Ellis Horwood, Chichester, West Sussex. ISBN 0470211032
Book Section
Whitby, Blay (2011) Do you want a robot lover? In: Lin, Patrick, Abney, Keith and Bekey, George A (eds.) Robot ethics: the ethical and social implications of robotics. Intelligent robotics and autonomous agents . MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., pp. 233-249. ISBN 9780262016667
Whitby, Blay (2011) On computable morality: an examination of machines as moral advisors. In: Anderson, Michael and Anderson, Susan Leigh (eds.) Machine ethics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9780521112352
Whitby, Blay (1996) The Turing Test: AI's biggest blind alley? In: Millican, P. and Clark, A. (eds.) Machines and Thought: The Legacy of Alan Turing. Mind Association Occasional Series, 1 . Oxford University Press, USA, USA, pp. 53-62. ISBN 9780198235934
Edited Book
Whitby, Blay (2005) Ethical Issues in Human-Robot Interaction. Procedings of the Symposium on Robot Companions: Hard Problems and Open Challenges in Robot-Human Interaction.
Conference or Workshop Item
Whitby, Blay and Dumitriu, Anna (2009) Beliefs, Learning, and Embodied Experience. In: British Psychological Society, Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section, Oxford University, UK.
Whitby, Blay and Dumitriu, Anna (2009) The Institute of Unnecessary Research: public engagement in science through art and performance. In: Fourth Annual Science and the Public Conference, 13-14 June 2009, University of Brighton, UK.
Whitby, Blay (2006) More or less human-like? Ethical issues in human-robot interaction. In: Ethics of Human Interaction with Robotic, Bionic, and AI Systems - Concepts and Policies, Naples, Italy.