Artificial Agency, Consciousness, and the Criteria for Moral Agency: What Properties Must an Artificial Agent Have to Be a Moral Agent?
Kenneth Einar Himma preprint
A spate of papers have recently appeared raising the issue of the possibility of not only artificial agency, but also artificial moral agency that raises all sorts of substantive questions of moral responsibility. Suppose, for example, that we are epistemically justified in believing that an ICT engineer has designed and produced an ICT that is capable of acting and satisfies the criteria for...