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Millar, Jason L.

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Technological moral proxies and the ethical limits of automating decision-making in robotics and artificial intelligence.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Technological moral proxies and the ethical limits of automating decision-making in robotics and artificial intelligence./
Author:	Millar, Jason L.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	228 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-01A(E).
Subject:	Philosophy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10155206
ISBN:	9781369102918

Technological moral proxies and the ethical limits of automating decision-making in robotics and artificial intelligence.
Millar, Jason L.

Technological moral proxies and the ethical limits of automating decision-making in robotics and artificial intelligence. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 228 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queen's University (Canada), 2015.

Humans have been automating increasingly sophisticated behaviours for some time now. We have machines that lift and move things, that perform complex calculations, and even machines that build other machines. More recently, technological advances have allowed us to automate increasingly sophisticated decision-making processes. We have machines that decide when and how to use lethal force, when and how to perform life-saving medical interventions, and when and how to maneuver cars in chaotic traffic. Clearly, some automated decision-making processes have serious ethical implications---we are now automating ethical decision-making. In this dissertation, I identify and explore a novel set of ethical implications that stem from automating ethical decision-making in emerging and existing technologies.

ISBN: 9781369102918Subjects--Topical Terms:

516511
Philosophy.

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520 $a Humans have been automating increasingly sophisticated behaviours for some time now. We have machines that lift and move things, that perform complex calculations, and even machines that build other machines. More recently, technological advances have allowed us to automate increasingly sophisticated decision-making processes. We have machines that decide when and how to use lethal force, when and how to perform life-saving medical interventions, and when and how to maneuver cars in chaotic traffic. Clearly, some automated decision-making processes have serious ethical implications---we are now automating ethical decision-making. In this dissertation, I identify and explore a novel set of ethical implications that stem from automating ethical decision-making in emerging and existing technologies.
520 $a I begin the argument by setting up an analogy between moral proxies in healthcare, tasked with making ethical decisions on behalf of those who cannot, and technological moral proxies, those machines (artefacts) to which we delegate ethical decision-making. The technological moral proxy is a useful metaphor. It allows us to import the many established norms surrounding moral proxies in bioethics, to inform the ethics, design and governance of certain machines. As is the case with moral proxies in healthcare, we need norms to help guide the design and governance of machines that are making ethical decisions on behalf of their users. Importantly, I argue that we need a methodology and framework to ensure we aren't subjecting technology users to unacceptable forms of paternalism.
520 $a Having set up the analogy, I situate the discussion within various theories in science and technology studies (STS). STS provides a rich philosophical vocabulary to help ground the particular ethical implications, including implications for designers and engineers, raised by machines that automate ethical decision-making. Thus, STS helps to frame the issues I raise as design and governance issues.
520 $a I then provide a rudimentary taxonomy of delegation to help distinguish between automated decision-making that is ethically permissible, and that which is impermissible. Finally, I combine the various pieces of the argument into a practical "tool" that could be used in design or governance contexts to help guide an ethical analysis of robots that automate ethical decision-making.
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