In this episode, Sven and John discuss the controversy arising from the idea moral agency in machines. What is an agent? What is a moral agent? Is it possible to create a machine with a sense of moral agency? Is this desirable or to be avoided at all costs? These are just some of the questions up for debate.

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Recommended Reading

• Amanda Sharkey, ‘Can we program or train robots to be good?’





• Paul Formosa and Malcolm Ryan, ‘Making Moral Machines: Why we need artificial moral agents?‘





• Michael Anderson and Susan Leigh Anderson, ‘Machine ethics: creating an ethical intelligent agent‘





• Carissa Véliz, ‘Moral zombies: why algorithms are not moral agents‘