Moral psychology was shaped around three categories of agents and patients: humans,
other animals, and supernatural beings. Rapid progress in artificial intelligence has …

Building artificial moral agents (AMAs) underscores the fragmentary character of presently
available models of human ethical behavior. It is a distinctly different enterprise from either …

Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and
driving trains. Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and …

Over the past twenty years, philosophers, computer scientists, and engineers have begun
reflecting seriously on the prospects for developing computer systems and robots capable of …

Virtue ethics seems to be a promising moral theory for understanding and interpreting the
development and behavior of artificial moral agents. Virtuous artificial agents would blur …

We propose that any robots that collaborate with, look after, or help humans—in short, social
robots—must have moral competence. But what does moral competence consist of? We …

This chapter explores the possibility of moral artificial intelligence–what it might look like and
what it might achieve. Against the backdrop of the enduring limitations of human moral …

One of the objectives in the field of artificial intelligence for some decades has been the
development of artificial agents capable of coexisting in harmony with people and other …

As artificial intelligence moves ever closer to the goal of producing fully autonomous agents,
the question of how to design and implement an artificial moral agent (AMA) becomes …

Abstract As robots and Artificial Intelligences become more enmeshed in rich social
contexts, it seems inevitable that we will have to make them into moral machines equipped …