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Hume’s Guillotine in Designing Ethically Intelligent Technologies

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Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Applications II (IHIET 2020)

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Intelligent machines can follow ethical rules in their behaviour. However, it is less clear whether intelligent systems can also create new ethical principles. The former position can be called weak ethical AI and the latter strong ethical AI. Hume’s guillotine which claims that one cannot derive values from facts appears to be a fundamental obstacle to strong ethical AI. The analysis of human ethical information processes provides clarity to the possibility of strong ethical AI. Human ethical information processing begins with positive of negative emotions associated to situations. Situations can be seen as consequences of actions and for this reason people can define rules about acceptability of typical actions. Finally, socio-ethical discourse create general ethical rules. Intelligent systems can provide important support in ethical process and thus the difference between weak and strong ethical AI is polar.

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  1. Cognitive Science, University of Jyväskylä, Box 35, 40014, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Pertti Saariluoma

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  1. Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

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  2. Campus du Moulin de la Housse, Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne GRESPI, Reims Cedex, France

    Redha Taiar

  3. Département de l’appareil locomoteur, Champ de l’Air, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland

    Vincent Gremeaux-Bader

  4. Laboratory of Movement Analysis and Measurement, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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Saariluoma, P. (2020). Hume’s Guillotine in Designing Ethically Intelligent Technologies. In: Ahram, T., Taiar, R., Gremeaux-Bader, V., Aminian, K. (eds) Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Applications II. IHIET 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1152. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44267-5_2

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