Moral artificial intelligence and machine puritanism.

Journal: The Behavioral and brain sciences
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Abstract

Puritanism may evolve into a technological variant based on norms of delegation of actions and perceptions to artificial intelligence. Instead of training self-control, people may be expected to cede their agency to self-controlled machines. The cost-benefit balance of this machine puritanism may be less aversive to wealthy individualistic democracies than the old puritanism they have abandoned.

Authors

  • Jean-François Bonnefon
    Toulouse School of Economics (TSM-Research), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse, 31015, France.