Moral Responsibility and Artificial Intelligence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kiener, Maximilian, author.

Series:

Law and Practical Reason.

Law and Practical Reason

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence--Law and legislation.

Artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence--Moral and ethical.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Hart Publishing, 2025.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

This book introduces a novel puzzle, the 'Lorry Driver Paradox', to advance our understanding of moral responsibility beyond current paradigms, to connect moral philosophy and legal scholarship in new ways, and to break new ground in the ethics of AI.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

PART I: MORAL RESPONSIBILITY

1. The Lorry Driver Paradox

(1) The Faultless Driver is not Morally Responsible for the Child's Death

(2) Apology Principle: one ought to apologise for something only if one is morally responsible for it

(3) The Driver Ought to give a Genuine Apology for the Child's Death

2. Strict Moral Answerability

Outline of the Solution: Strict Moral Answerability

The Definition and the Condition of Strict Moral Answerability

Answerability in Current Moral Philosophy

Answerability in the Criminal Law

Differences to Duff's Proposal

Objection: Strict Answerability is a Contradiction in Terms

Conclusion

3. Taking Responsibility as a Normative Power

Outline of the Solution: Taking Responsibility

Taking Responsibility in Moral Philosophy

Taking Responsibility in Public International Law

Uniting Philosophical and Legal Perspectives

Two Objections

4. Pascal's Apology

Outline of the Solution: Pascal's Apology

Assessing Pascal's Apology

Objections

5. The Strictness First Approach

PART II: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

6. The Autonomous AI Conundrum

The Autonomous AI Conundrum

7. The Abundance of Strict Moral Answerability

The Concept of Strict Moral Answerability

A Novel Argument for Strict Moral Answerability

Applying Strict Moral Answerability to AI

Re-Interpreting the Challenge from Responsibility and AI

8. Closing AI's Responsibility Gap at Will

Champagne and Tonkens' (CT's) Proposal: The Normative Power of Taking Prospective Liability

My Proposal: The Normative Power of Taking Retrospective Answerability

Two Questions (and an Objection)

9. AI and the Value of Responsibility

The Value of Lacking Responsibility for AI.

The Values of Moral Responsibility

The Theoretical Problem of a Lack of Responsibility in AI

10. The ABC of Responsible AI

Answerability

Blame

Compensation

References

Index.

ISBN:

1-5099-5687-5

1-5099-5685-9

1-5099-5686-7

OCLC:

1534805041