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Critiquing the Reasons for Making Artificial Moral Agents.

Science and engineering ethics Feb 19, 2018
Many industry leaders and academics from the field of machine ethics would have us believe that the inevitability of robots coming to have a larger role in our lives demands that robots be endowed with moral reasoning capabilities. Robots endowed in ...
Moral Development Ethical Analysis Ethicists Artificial Intelligence Robotics Morals
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Human Decisions in Moral Dilemmas are Largely Described by Utilitarianism: Virtual Car Driving Study Provides Guidelines for Autonomous Driving Vehicles.

Science and engineering ethics Jan 22, 2018
Ethical thought experiments such as the trolley dilemma have been investigated extensively in the past, showing that humans act in utilitarian ways, trying to cause as little overall damage as possible. These trolley dilemmas have gained renewed atte...
Virtual Reality Humans Artificial Intelligence Decision Making Automobiles Morals Altruism Ethical Theory Automobile Driving Guidelines as Topic Automation
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Robots and people with dementia: Unintended consequences and moral hazard.

Nursing ethics Dec 20, 2017
The use of social robots in elder care is entering the mainstream as robots become more sophisticated and populations age. While there are many potential benefits to the use of social robots in care for the older people, there are ethical challenges ...
Healthy Aging Dementia Robotics Morals Humans Geriatrics
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Self-Driving Cars and Engineering Ethics: The Need for a System Level Analysis.

Science and engineering ethics Nov 13, 2017
The literature on self-driving cars and ethics continues to grow. Yet much of it focuses on ethical complexities emerging from an individual vehicle. That is an important but insufficient step towards determining how the technology will impact human ...
Humans Artificial Intelligence Automation Morals Engineering Systems Analysis Social Change Ethical Analysis Social Responsibility Accidents, Traffic Automobile Driving Computers Technology Automobiles
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The Dawning of the Ethics of Environmental Robots.

Science and engineering ethics Oct 23, 2017
Environmental scientists and engineers have been exploring research and monitoring applications of robotics, as well as exploring ways of integrating robotics into ecosystems to aid in responses to accelerating environmental, climatic, and biodiversi...
Ethics, Research Conservation of Natural Resources Morals Research Engineering Humans Ecosystem Robotics
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The behavioral and neural basis of empathic blame.

Scientific reports Jul 12, 2017
Mature moral judgments rely both on a perpetrator's intent to cause harm, and also on the actual harm caused-even when unintended. Much prior research asks how intent information is represented neurally, but little asks how even unintended harms infl...
Female Young Adult Empathy Adult Behavioral Symptoms Humans Neural Networks, Computer Intention Morals Judgment Male Image Processing, Computer-Assisted Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Robotic Nudges: The Ethics of Engineering a More Socially Just Human Being.

Science and engineering ethics Mar 4, 2015
Robots are becoming an increasingly pervasive feature of our personal lives. As a result, there is growing importance placed on examining what constitutes appropriate behavior when they interact with human beings. In this paper, we discuss whether co...
Moral Development Humans Social Justice Robotics Morals Engineering
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AIonAI: a humanitarian law of artificial intelligence and robotics.

Science and engineering ethics Jan 11, 2014
The enduring progression of artificial intelligence and cybernetics offers an ever-closer possibility of rational and sentient robots. The ethics and morals deriving from this technological prospect have been considered in the philosophy of artificia...
Codes of Ethics Human Rights Humans Robotics Artificial Intelligence Morals
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Moral psychological exploration of the asymmetry effect in AI-assisted euthanasia decisions.

Cognition Sep 1, 2025
A recurring discrepancy in attitudes toward decisions made by human versus artificial agents, termed the Human-Robot moral judgment asymmetry, has been documented in moral psychology of AI. Across a wide range of contexts, AI agents are subject to gr...
Middle Aged Decision Making Morals Judgment Young Adult Euthanasia Adult Male Humans Artificial Intelligence Female
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Intuitive judgements towards artificial intelligence verdicts of moral transgressions.

The British journal of social psychology Jul 1, 2025
Automated decision-making systems have become increasingly prevalent in morally salient domains of services, introducing ethically significant consequences. In three pre-registered studies (N = 804), we experimentally investigated whether people's ju...
Adult Male Trust Artificial Intelligence Female Young Adult Attitude Judgment Intuition Middle Aged Adolescent Humans Morals
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