... disagreement argument informed consent racism sexism taxation transparency paradox deployment Prisoner’s Dilemma autonomous vehicles ethical settings artificial moral agents mandatory ethical settings personal ethical settings nudges choice architecture moral machines Autonomous vehicles (AVs...

...A framework is provided for understanding the trajectory toward increasingly sophisticated artificial moral agents, emphasizing two dimensions: autonomy and sensitivity to morally relevant facts. Systems low on both dimensions have “operational morality” their moral significance is entirely...

...The richness of human moral decision making is underscored by the project of developing an artificial moral agent. This brief epilogue discusses how the project of designing artificial moral agents feeds back into our understanding of ourselves as moral agents and of the nature of ethical theory...

...The development of military robots deployed on the battlefield and service robots in the home underscore the need for artificial moral agents. However, autonomous bots within existing computer systems are already making decisions that affect humans for good or for bad. The topic of (ro)bot...

...Artificial moral agents are necessary and inevitable. Innovative technologies are converging on sophisticated systems that will require some capacity for moral decision making. With the implementation of driverless trains, the “trolley cases” invented by ethicists to study moral dilemmas may...

... that full‐blown moral agency (which depends on “strong AI”) or even AI powerful enough to pass the Turing Test may be beyond current or future technology, but locates the project of developing artificial moral agents in the space between operational morality and genuine moral agency. This niche is labeled...

...The chapter begins with an overview of philosophy of technology to provide a context for the specific concerns raised by the prospect of artificial moral agents. Some concerns, such as whether artificial moral agents will lead humans to abrogate responsibility to machines, seem particularly...

...Implementing any top‐down ethical theory of ethics in an artificial moral agent will pose both computational and practical challenges. One central concern is framing the background information necessary for rule and duty based conceptions of ethics and utilitarianism. Asimov's three laws come...

...The topic of this chapter is the application of virtue ethics to the development of artificial moral agents. The difficulties of applying general moral theories in a top‐down fashion to artificial moral agents motivate the return to the virtue‐based conception of morality that can be traced...

... making. The new field of inquiry directed at the development of artificial moral agents is referred to by a number of names including machine morality, machine ethics, roboethics, or artificial morality. Engineers exploring design strategies for systems sensitive to moral considerations in their choices...