Machine Ethics for Metaverse Gambling: No Stake in a $24m Market?

Author

Samlasi, A.V. ; Gillam, Lee

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput., Univ. of Surrey, Guildford

fYear

2009

fDate

23-24 March 2009

Firstpage

209

Lastpage

212

Abstract

Online gambling produces a substantial turnover. Unfortunately for potential virtual world gamblers and gambling organizations alike, US law had forced the closure of gambling in the Second Life virtual world. However, an open grid protocol could lead to the provision of off-shore gambling in this virtual world. Aside from legal issues, online gambling generally gives rise to ethical issues relating to prevention of harm. We considered the combined legal and ethical issues, and have proposed and begun to construct and evaluate a system with computational oversight: an ethical advisor. The system is grounded in recent research into machine ethics, which may offer insights into other legal and ethical matters, and provides a framework for responsible gambling in our EthiCasino (ethical virtual casino) in Second Life.

Keywords

computer games; ethical aspects; legislation; social networking (online); EthiCasino; Second Life virtual world; ethical issue; ethical virtual casino; legal issue; machine ethics; metaverse gambling; online gambling; open grid protocol; virtual world gamblers; Avatars; Collaboration; Ethics; Humans; Law; Legal factors; Protocols; Second Life; Web server; EthiCasino; Keywords; Machine Ethics; Online Gambling; Responsible Gambling; Second life; Virtual Worlds;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, 2009. VS-GAMES '09. Conference in

Conference_Location

Coventry

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3588-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VS-GAMES.2009.39

Filename

5116577