LaCroix, Travis (2022) Moral Dilemmas for Moral Machines. [Preprint]

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Autonomous systems are being developed and deployed in situations that may require some degree of ethical decision-making ability. As a result, research in machine ethics has proliferated in recent years. This work has included using moral dilemmas as validation mechanisms for implementing decision-making algorithms in ethically-loaded situations. Using trolley-style problems in the context of autonomous vehicles as a case study, I argue (1) that this is a misapplication of philosophical thought experiments because (2) it fails to appreciate the purpose of moral dilemmas, and (3) this has potentially catastrophic consequences; however, (4) there are uses of moral dilemmas in machine ethics that are appropriate and the novel situations that arise in a machine-learning context can shed some light on philosophical work in ethics.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID LaCroix, Travis tlacroix@dal.ca 0000-0002-1724-3434
Keywords:	AI Ethics, Moral Dilemmas, Artificial Moral Agency, Thought Experiments
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Artificial Intelligence > AI and Ethics Specific Sciences > Artificial Intelligence General Issues > Ethical Issues Specific Sciences > Artificial Intelligence > Machine Learning General Issues > Technology General Issues > Thought Experiments
Depositing User:	Dr. Travis LaCroix
Date Deposited:	14 Mar 2022 03:48
Last Modified:	14 Mar 2022 03:48
Item ID:	20339
DOI or Unique Handle:	https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-022-00134-y
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Artificial Intelligence > AI and Ethics Specific Sciences > Artificial Intelligence General Issues > Ethical Issues Specific Sciences > Artificial Intelligence > Machine Learning General Issues > Technology General Issues > Thought Experiments
Date:	8 March 2022
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20339

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