By employing AI systems, we are increasingly able to enhance our capacity as agents in many different areas, including information processing and goal-oriented behavior. Concerns with the impact of this development on individuals have focused on possible deskilling and transfer of control from human being to technology, leaving individuals less autonomous. Such concerns, however, presume that...
Some machine ethicists claim that any rule-based approach to implementing morality in autonomous machine agents must fail because rules are either too vague or, alternatively, too brittle and conflicted to determine what action the agent should take in particular cases. In this paper, I argue that autonomous machine agents not only can be governed by explicit moral rules, but must be governed...
In a sizable body of work, Nisbett et al. claim there is a fundamental difference between Occidental versus East-Asian human reasoning. Encapsulated, the idea is that in the former case reasoning is often highly sensitive to classical inconsistency (which revolves around contradictions of the shape P & not-P), while in the latter case things are — and here we quote — “dialectical.” Now,...
