Carissa Véliz

Moral zombies: why algorithms are not moral agents.

Ai & Society June 1, 2021 Carissa Véliz 176 citations

In philosophy of mind, zombies are imaginary creatures that are exact physical duplicates of conscious subjects for whom there is no first-personal experience. Zombies are meant to show that physicalism-the theory that the universe is made up entirely out of physical components-is false. In this paper, I apply the zombie thought experiment to the realm of morality to assess whether moral agency...