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arXiv:2203.06152 (cs)
[Submitted on 11 Mar 2022]

Title:Moral Dilemmas for Moral Machines

Authors:Travis LaCroix
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    Abstract: 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.

Comments:   AI Ethics (2022)
Subjects:   Computers and Society (cs.CY); Artificial Intelligence
            (cs.AI)
Cite as:    arXiv:2203.06152 [cs.CY]
            (or arXiv:2203.06152v1 [cs.CY] for this version)
            https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2203.06152
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Related DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-022-00134-y
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From: Travis LaCroix [view email]
[v1] Fri, 11 Mar 2022 18:24:39 UTC (317 KB)
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