The Case for Explicit Ethical Agents

• DOI: 10.1609/aimag.v38i4.2746
• Publication Date: 2017-12-29T06:37:46Z
• Authors: Matthias Scheutz
• Keywords: Etiquette; Normative ethics

Morality is a fundamentally human trait that permeates all levels of society, from basic etiquette and normative expectations social groups, to formalized legal principles upheld by societies. Hence, future interactive AI systems, in particular, cognitive systems on robots deployed settings, will have meet expectations, for otherwise these system risk causing harm. While the interest machine ethics has increased rapidly recent years, there are only very few current efforts community investigate moral ethical reasoning. And currently no architecture even rudimentary or competence, is, ability judge situations based such as norms values make morally ethically sound decisions. We hence argue urgent need instill competence intended be employed contexts.