What Properties Must an Artificial Agent Have to Be a Moral Agent?
Abstract: A spate of papers have recently appeared raising the issue of the possibility of not only artificial agency, but also artificial moral agency that raises all sorts of substantive questions of moral responsibility. Suppose, for example, that we are epistemically justified in believing that an ICT engineer has designed and produced an ICT that is capable of acting and satisfies the criteria for moral agency. If this ICT turns out to do something bad that no one anticipated, who is morally responsible: the designer, the ICT or some combination of both? What I wish to attempt to do is to work out some conceptual issues regarding the concepts of agency, natural agency, artificial agency, and moral agency, as well as articulate the criteria for moral agency as a first step towards beginning a consideration of these important questions of professional responsibility. Much of what I take myself to be doing enjoys a consensus in the literature – so much so that many crucial claims on
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