Can artificial intelligences be moral agents?
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Narrow AI systems, such as LLMs, lack the capacities regarded as essential for moral agency, such as consciousness, self-concepts, personal memory, life experiences, goals, and emotions.
“narrow AI systems, such as LLMs, lack the capacities regarded as essential for moral agency, such as consciousness, self-concepts, personal memory, life experiences, goals, and emotions [18, 139, 151].”
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- Authors
- Brożek, B., & Janik, B.
- Affiliations
- Jagiellonian University (PL)
- Corresponding author
- Brożek, Bartosz
- Venue
- New Ideas in Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-08
- Volume
- 54
- Pages
- 101-106
- ISSN
- 0732-118X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2909533911
- Cited by
- 68
- References
- 58
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 11 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 46.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- ruj.uj.edu.pl
- Licence
- Locations
- New Ideas in Psychology (publishedVersion)
- Homo Politicus (Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophical Ethics and Theory
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Literary and Philosophical Studies
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Keywords
- artificial intelligence, moral agency, moral responsibility, Kantian ethics, utilitarianism, AI architecture, machine ethics
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