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- Title
MORAL ORTHOSES: A NEW APPROACH TO HUMAN AND MACHINE ETHICS: with Fraser Watts, "Mutual Enhancement between Science and Religion: In the Footsteps of the Epiphany Philosophers"; William H. Beharrell, "Transformation and the Waking Body: A Return to Truth via Our Bodies"; Marius Dorobantu and Yorick Wilks, "Moral Orthoses: A New Approach to Human and Machine Ethics"; Galen Watts, "Religion, Science, and Disenchantment in Late Modernity"; and Rowan Williams, "Epiphany Philosophers: Afterword."
- Authors
Dorobantu, Marius; Wilks, Yorick
- Abstract
Machines are increasingly involved in decisions with ethical implications, which require ethical explanations. Current machine learning algorithms are ethically inscrutable, but not in a way very different from human behavior. This article looks at the role of rationality and reasoning in traditional ethical thought and in artificial intelligence, emphasizing the need for some explainability of actions. It then explores Neil Lawrence's embodiment factor as an insightful way of looking at the differences between human and machine intelligence, connecting it to the theological understanding of embodiment, relationality, and personhood. Finally, it proposes the notion of artificial moral orthoses, which could provide ethical explanations for both artificial and human agents, as a more promising unifying approach to human and machine ethics.
- Subjects
PHILOSOPHERS; WILLIAMS, Rowan, 1950-; HUME, David, 1711-1776; HUMAN behavior; ARTIFICIAL intelligence; ETHICS; DISILLUSIONMENT; ORTHOPEDIC apparatus
- Publication
Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, 2019, Vol 54, Issue 4, p1004
- ISSN
0591-2385
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/zygo.12560