Many industry leaders and academics from the field of machine ethics would have us
believe that the inevitability of robots coming to have a larger role in our lives demands that …

This paper proposes a methodological redirection of the philosophical debate on artificial
moral agency (AMA) in view of increasingly pressing practical needs due to technological …

Among ethicists and engineers within robotics there is an ongoing discussion as to whether
ethical robots are possible or even desirable. We answer both of these questions in the …

The emergence of AI is posing serious challenges to standard conceptions of moral status.
New non-biological entities are able to act and make decisions rationally. The question …

The emergence of AI is posing serious challenges to standard conceptions of moral status.
New non-biological entities are able to act and make decisions rationally. The question …

This thesis studies how to generate, represent and reason about norms and how to use
norms to construct artificial ethical agents. We investigate two types of norm generation …

The field of" machine ethics" has raised the issue of the moral agency and responsibility of
artificial entities, like computers and robots under the heading of" artificial moral …

In the face of today's culturally diverse social reality, the ethical design of artificial
intelligences systems (AIS) no longer follows only one cultural tradition, but must take into …

Monitoring the moral decisions of autonomous, intelligent machines is a difficult endeavour.
Issues such as resource allocation, security, location, and engineering need to be …

Autonomous decision-making machines–ranging from autonomous vehicles to chatbots–are
already able to make decisions that have ethical consequences. If these machines are …