Moral coherentism in the age of Artificial Intelligence. A pattern-based project in machine moral learning. Muntean, I. 2024. To appear in American Philosophical Quarterly, volume 61, issue 2. Preprint available on demand.
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Abstract The current project focuses on models of ‘artificial moral learning’ (as a type of moral cognition) and ‘moral coherentism.’ It clarifies how artificial moral agency sheds light on some meta-ethical questions in the coherentism framework (Brink, Dorsey, Lynch, Sayre-McCord). Data in artificial moral cognition is assumed to be divided into two subspaces, moral and factual, and to contain complex, machine-learnable patterns. Inspired by Lynch’s ‘moral concordance,’ some schematic models of this type of two-dimensional data are proposed and assessed. The last, more comprehensive model is premised on the theoretical concept of ‘distributed concordance’ over a population of artificial moral agents. The paper concludes that coherentism, when generalized to machine ethics and artificial moral learning, has some advantages over foundationalist or reliabilist approaches in meta-ethics.
@misc{munteanMoralCoherentismAge2024,
	title = {Moral coherentism in the age of {Artificial} {Intelligence}. {A} pattern-based project in machine moral learning},
	copyright = {All rights reserved. Do not quote without permission},
	abstract = {Abstract
The current project focuses on models of ‘artificial moral learning’ (as a type of moral cognition) and ‘moral coherentism.’ It clarifies how artificial moral agency sheds light on some meta-ethical questions in the coherentism framework (Brink, Dorsey, Lynch, Sayre-McCord). Data in artificial moral cognition is assumed to be divided into two subspaces, moral and factual, and to contain complex, machine-learnable patterns. Inspired by Lynch’s ‘moral concordance,’ some schematic models of this type of two-dimensional data are proposed and assessed. The last, more comprehensive model is premised on the theoretical concept of ‘distributed concordance’ over a population of artificial moral agents. The paper concludes that coherentism, when generalized to machine ethics and artificial moral learning, has some advantages over foundationalist or reliabilist approaches in meta-ethics.},
	author = {Muntean, Ioan},
	year = {2024},
	note = {To appear in American Philosophical Quarterly, volume 61, issue 2. Preprint available on demand.},
	keywords = {Artificial Morality, Concordance, Distributive Concordance, Machine Ethics, Machine moral learning, Moral Coherentism, Moral cognition, Moral learning, Moral machine learning, Multi-agent coherence},
}

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