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Human Morality, Machine Morality: Programming Machine Ethics as a Legal Problem

Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: This article begins with a contextualization of the artificial decision and of the fields of action of autonomous software and machines, considering the underlying need to establish ethical-legal programming standards. The fundamental problem of the text is to establish the biological root of human morality and the (im)possibility of mimicking it. In fact, a profound anthropological view of the origin of compassion and the processes of man's domestication by man make it possible to see an innate morality and also a biological substratum for the construction of moral patterns of conduct. In this way, the programming processes that take place in a prosthodox and "in silico" universe are far from configuring an authentic valorative programming. Making the artificial decision more adequate will imply formalizing the so-called ethical empowerment and the intrinsic motivation of automatons, through a principialist ethical-legalistic architecture. Keywords: artificial intelligence; moral; ethics; robotics
Language: English
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3132554579
FWCI: 0.072
Cites: 12
Cited by: 2
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