Some special needs teens and adults may wish to do well, but have a great deal of difficulty modeling the impact of their actions. Impulse disorders, limited abilities to abstract, and autism-associated disabilities may all make a prosthetic conscience useful ...
Gordon's Notes: A conscience for robots - and for humans too
... Some humans too would benefit from a prosthetic conscience. It might allow persons with disorders of conscience to function more effectively in the modern world. Our prisons are full of low IQ individuals with a limited capacity to model the impacts of their actions on other persons. A prosthetic conscience might allow them to avoid prison, or to have great success after prison life...
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