There are two paradigms of AI development, one being the symbolic approaches requiring explicit programming, and the latter based on machine learning. The advantage of machine-learning AIs is that it can be trained from large datasets to excel in features that are hard to program. However, one important feature of machine learning approaches is its inscrutability. We argue for a hybrid model...
Intelligent and especially autonomous machines, that increasingly interact with humans, must have some degree of independent moral decision-making capability. If humans are to trust and accept sophisticated machines as interaction partners, they must be convinced that the machines share their essential values and concerns, or at least act accordingly. For moral machines to be accepted, it is...
There are two main types of arguments in the debate concerning the moral status of machines: the properties approach and the relational approach. My aim is to investigate the most influential ‘property’ based approaches to moral status of machines and show that they all have a generic problem with soundness of the arguments. Then, I focus on the criterion of ‘behavioral performance’, John...
