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As AI systems increasingly operate with autonomy and adaptability, the traditional boundaries of moral responsibility in techno-social systems are being challenged. This paper explores the evolving discourse on the delegation of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic , Gianfranco Basti , Tobias Holstein

As AI systems become increasingly powerful and pervasive, there are growing concerns about machines' morality or a lack thereof. Yet, teaching morality to machines is a formidable task, as morality remains among the most intensely debated…

This paper elaborates on the concept of moral exercises as a means to help AI actors cultivate virtues that enable effective human oversight of AI systems. We explore the conceptual framework and significance of moral exercises, situating…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Silvia Crafa , Teresa Scantamburlo

This study proposes an analysis of the different types of ethical approaches involved in the ethics of AI, and situates their interests and limits. First, the author introduces to the contemporary need for and meaning of ethics. He…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-26 David Doat

Several seminal ethics initiatives have stipulated sets of principles and standards for good technology development in the AI sector. However, widespread criticism has pointed out a lack of practical realization of these principles.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Thilo Hagendorff

This paper grounds ethics in evolutionary biology, viewing moral norms as adaptive mechanisms that render cooperation fitness-viable under selection pressure. Current alignment approaches add ethics post hoc, treating it as an external…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Dylan Waldner

There is much debate in machine ethics about the most appropriate way to introduce ethical reasoning capabilities into intelligent autonomous machines. Recent incidents involving autonomous vehicles in which humans have been killed or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Ajit Narayanan

Road vehicle travel at a reasonable speed involves some risk, even when using computer-controlled driving with failure-free hardware and perfect sensing. A fully-automated vehicle must continuously decide how to allocate this risk without a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Noah J. Goodall

In recent years, we have witnessed a marked development and growth in Artificial Intelligence. The growth of the data volume generated by sensors and machines, combined with the information flow resulting from the user actions on the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Martim Veiga , Carlos J. Costa

The neutrality thesis holds that technology cannot be laden with values. This long-standing view has faced critiques, but much of the argumentation against neutrality has focused on traditional, non-smart technologies like bridges and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Torben Swoboda , Lode Lauwaert

Development of the intelligent autonomous robot technology presupposes its anticipated beneficial effect on the individuals and societies. In the case of such disruptive emergent technology, not only questions of how to build, but also why…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic , Tobias Holstein , Patrizio Pelliccione

The proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems exhibiting complex and seemingly agentive behaviours necessitates a critical philosophical examination of their agency, autonomy, and moral status. In this paper we undertake a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Paul Formosa , Inês Hipólito , Thomas Montefiore

In this meta-ethnography, we explore three different angles of ethical artificial intelligence (AI) design implementation including the philosophical ethical viewpoint, the technical perspective, and framing through a political lens. Our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Jennafer S. Roberts , Laura N. Montoya

The 4th Industrial Revolution is the culmination of the digital age. Nowadays, technologies such as robotics, nanotechnology, genetics, and artificial intelligence promise to transform our world and the way we live. Artificial Intelligence…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Nicholas Kluge Corrêa , Nythamar De Oliveira , Diogo Massmann

Ethics is one of the longest standing intellectual endeavors of humanity. In recent years, the fields of AI and NLP have attempted to wrangle with how learning systems that interact with humans should be constrained to behave ethically. One…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Zeerak Talat , Hagen Blix , Josef Valvoda , Maya Indira Ganesh , Ryan Cotterell , Adina Williams

The recent surge in interest in ethics in artificial intelligence may leave many educators wondering how to address moral, ethical, and philosophical issues in their AI courses. As instructors we want to develop curriculum that not only…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-27 Emanuelle Burton , Judy Goldsmith , Sven Koenig , Benjamin Kuipers , Nicholas Mattei , Toby Walsh

AI Alignment research seeks to align human and AI goals to ensure independent actions by a machine are always ethical. This paper argues empathy is necessary for this task, despite being often neglected in favor of more deductive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Devin Gonier , Adrian Adduci , Cassidy LoCascio

The ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) systems has risen as an imminent concern across scholarly communities. This concern has propagated a great interest in algorithmic fairness. Large research agendas are now devoted to increasing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Kimi Wenzel , Geoff Kaufman , Laura Dabbish

The ethics of Machine Learning has become an unavoidable topic in the AI Community. The deployment of machine learning systems in multiple social contexts has resulted in a closer ethical scrutiny of the design, development, and application…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Miguel Sicart , Irina Shklovski , Mirabelle Jones

Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing at a pace that raises urgent questions about how to align machine decision-making with human moral values. This working paper investigates how leading AI systems prioritize moral outcomes and what…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Eoin O'Doherty , Nicole Weinrauch , Andrew Talone , Uri Klempner , Xiaoyuan Yi , Xing Xie , Yi Zeng