Open AccessMoral Orthoses: A New Approach to Human and Machine Ethics
Author(s) -
Wilks Yorick
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ai magazine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 2371-9621
pISSN - 0738-4602
DOI - 10.1609/aimag.v40i1.2854
Subject(s) - action (physics) , epistemology , psychology , computer science , cognitive science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
I argue that both human and machine actions are more opaque than is generally realized and that the actions of both require explanation that an ethical orthosis might provide as aspects of artificial Companions for both human and machine actors. These explanations might well be closer to ethical accounts based on moral sentiment or emotion in the tradition of the primacy of sentiment over reason in this area of human and machine action.