Open AccessArtificial moral agents: an intercultural perspective
Author(s) -
Michael Nagenborg
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
international review of information ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2563-5638
DOI - 10.29173/irie14
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , epistemology , limiting , point (geometry) , subject (documents) , sociology , social psychology , psychology , computer science , philosophy , artificial intelligence , engineering , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics , library science
In this paper I will argue that artificial moral agents (AMAs) are a fitting subject of intercultural information ethics because of the impact they may have on the relationship between information rich and information poor countries. I will give a limiting definition of AMAs first, and discuss two different types of AMAs with different implications from an intercultural perspective. While AMAs following preset rules might raise con-cerns about digital imperialism, AMAs being able to adjust to their user‘s behavior will lead us to the question what makes an AMA ?moral?? I will argue that this question does present a good starting point for an inter-cultural dialogue which might be helpful to overcome the notion of Africa as a mere victim.