Philosophical signposts for artificial moral agent frameworks

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Philosophy

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Suri

Volume

6

Issue

2

First Page

92

Last Page

109

Publication Date

2017

Abstract

This article focuses on a particular issue under machine ethics—that is, the nature of Artificial Moral Agents. Machine ethics is a branch of artificial intelligence that looks into the moral status of artificial agents. Artificial moral agents, on the other hand, are artificial autonomous agents that possess moral value, as well as certain rights and responsibilities. This paper demonstrates that attempts to fully develop a theory that could possibly account for the nature of Artificial Moral Agents may consider certain philosophical ideas, like the standard characterizations of agency, rational agency, moral agency, and artificial agency. At the very least, the said philosophical concepts may be treated as signposts for further research on how to truly account for the nature of Artificial Moral Agents.

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Disciplines

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Keywords

Artificial intelligence—Moral and ethical aspects

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