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Machine Ethics: Do Androids Dream of Being Good People?

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Informáticaes
dc.affiliation.grupoinvUC3M. Grupo de Investigación: Knowledge Reusinges
dc.contributor.authorGénova Fuster, Gonzalo
dc.contributor.authorMoreno Pelayo, Valentín
dc.contributor.authorGonzález Martín, M. Rosario
dc.contributor.funderComunidad de Madrides
dc.contributor.funderUniversidad Carlos III de Madrides
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-05T09:52:54Z
dc.date.available2023-10-05T09:52:54Z
dc.date.issued2023-03-23
dc.description.abstractIs ethics a computable function? Can machines learn ethics like humans do? If teaching consists in no more than programming, training, indoctrinating¿ and if ethics is merely following a code of conduct, then yes, we can teach ethics to algorithmic machines. But if ethics is not merely about following a code of conduct or about imitating the behavior of others, then an approach based on computing outcomes, and on the reduction of ethics to the compilation and application of a set of rules, either a priori or learned, misses the point. Our intention is not to solve the technical problem of machine ethics, but to learn something about human ethics, and its rationality, by reflecting on the ethics that can and should be implemented in machines. Any machine ethics implementation will have to face a number of fundamental or conceptual problems, which in the end refer to philosophical questions, such as: what is a human being (or more generally, what is a worthy being); what is human intentional acting; and how are intentional actions and their consequences morally evaluated. We are convinced that a proper understanding of ethical issues in AI can teach us something valuable about ourselves, and what it means to lead a free and responsible ethical life, that is, being good people beyond merely "following a moral code". In the end we believe that rationality must be seen to involve more than just computing, and that value rationality is beyond numbers. Such an understanding is a required step to recovering a renewed rationality of ethics, one that is urgently needed in our highly technified society.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work has been supported by the Madrid Government (Comunidad de Madrid-Spain) under the terms of the Multi-Annual Agreement with UC3M in the line of Excellence of University Professors (EPUC3M17), and in the context of the V PRICIT (Regional Programme of Research and Technological Innovation). This research has received funding also from the RESTART project – “Continuous Reverse Engineering for Software Product Lines / Ingeniería Inversa Continua para Líneas de Productos de Software” (ref. RTI2018-099915-B-I00, Convocatoria Proyectos de I + D Retos Investigación del Programa Estatal de I + D + i Orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad 2018, grant agreement nº: 412122; and from the CritiRed project – “Elaboración de un modelo predictivo para el desarrollo del pensamiento crítico en el uso de las redes sociales”, Convocatoria Retos de Investigación del Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (2019–2022), ref. RTI2018-095740-B-I00.en
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationGénova, G., Moreno, V. & González, M.R. Machine Ethics: Do Androids Dream of Being Good People?. Sci Eng Ethics 29, 10 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-023-00433-5en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-023-00433-5
dc.identifier.issn1353-3452
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage1
dc.identifier.publicationissue10
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage17
dc.identifier.publicationtitleSCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ETHICSen
dc.identifier.publicationvolume29
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/38545
dc.identifier.uxxiAR/0000032521
dc.language.isoenges
dc.publisherSpringeren
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. RTI2018-099915-B-I00es
dc.rights© 2023, The Author(s)en
dc.rightsAtribución 3.0 España
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accessen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
dc.subject.ecienciaInformáticaes
dc.subject.otherrationality of ethicsen
dc.subject.othermachine ethics: moral codes of conducten
dc.subject.otherintentional actionen
dc.subject.otherartificial intelligenceen
dc.subject.othercomputabilityen
dc.titleMachine Ethics: Do Androids Dream of Being Good People?en
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