RT Article
T1 Moral Orthoses: A New Approach to Human and Machine Ethics
JF Zygon
VO 54
IS 4
SP 1004
OP 1021
A1 Dorobantu, Marius
A1 Wilks, Yorick 1939-
LA English
PB Open Library of Humanities$s2024-
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1689581905
AB Machines are increasingly involved in decisions with ethical implications, which require ethical explanations. Current machine learning algorithms are ethically inscrutable, but not in a way very different from human behavior. This article looks at the role of rationality and reasoning in traditional ethical thought and in artificial intelligence, emphasizing the need for some explainability of actions. It then explores Neil Lawrence's embodiment factor as an insightful way of looking at the differences between human and machine intelligence, connecting it to the theological understanding of embodiment, relationality, and personhood. Finally, it proposes the notion of artificial moral orthoses, which could provide ethical explanations for both artificial and human agents, as a more promising unifying approach to human and machine ethics.
K1 David Hume
K1 Neil Lawrence
K1 artificial companions
K1 Artificial Intelligence
K1 Embodiment
K1 Ethics
K1 explainable AI
K1 Machine Learning
K1 Relationality
K1 Theology
DO 10.1111/zygo.12560