Holding Robots Responsible: The Elements of Machine Morality

Yochanan E. Bigman; Adam Waytz; Ron Alterovitz; Kurt Gray

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2019.02.008

Holding Robots Responsible: The Elements of Machine Morality

Yochanan E. Bigman^*, Adam Waytz, Ron Alterovitz, Kurt Gray

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Abstract

As robots become more autonomous, people will see them as more responsible for wrongdoing. Moral psychology suggests that judgments of robot responsibility will hinge on perceived situational awareness, intentionality, and free will, plus human likeness and the robot's capacity for harm. We also consider questions of robot rights and moral decision-making.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	365-368
Number of pages	4
Journal	Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Volume	23
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2019.02.008
State	Published - May 2019
Externally published	Yes

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autonomous machines
autonomy
morality
responsibility

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