Proposed Way to Inculcate Morality in Artificial Intelligence

Richa Kapoor Mehra

2023

Abstract

Recently one of the most trending, memorable and unique news hitting the social media that showcased one of the best uses of technology is in the form of the clad draped in a traditional saree to accept loan documents from bank branch. Robotic company ASIMOV sent its saree- clad advanced robot SAYABOT to receive loan documents from the bank. One of the main reasons for the popularity of such humanoids is due to their capability of performing task in almost all sectors such as education, healthcare, hospitality and banking. In the 21st century, human dependency on robots and other gadgets has increased drastically, as a result giving rise to plenty of challenges. With AI becoming smarter day by day in taking decisions and getting involved in other activities results into various ethical concerns. Few questions that one can ponder upon- can these digitally empowered Bots who behave like humans and dress like humans, act in socially and morally responsible way? Can Artificial Intelligence be said to be moral agents? Can artificial intelligence be said to have the ability to discern right from wrong? Who bears responsibility of wrong doings by Artificial Intelligence? Can we hold artificial intelligence accountable for its own actions? Is there a way to equip artificial intelligent as artificial moral agents? This is where role of ethics comes in. The increasing use of AI in 21st century in more efficient and faster way poses various challenges on society and its beings. Now one of the significant question is what should be done to ensure that AI outbreak gives rise to positive results which benefit the society as a whole? This article is an attempt to answer the above-mentioned questions by showcasing ethics as a means to tame and instruct artificial intelligence to ensure they act in a morally responsible way. The aim of this article is to determine which ethical theory is best suitable theory that would provide results in favor of humanity. The first section of this article deals with consequentialist theory of utilitarianism. In the second section an attempt has been made to comprehend how compatible artificial intelligence would be with Aristotle’s virtue theory. The third and last section showcase the compatibility of artificial intelligence with deontology theory of Immanuel Kant.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kapoor Mehra R. (2023). Proposed Way to Inculcate Morality in Artificial Intelligence. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Internet of Things: Accelerating Innovation in Industry and Consumer Electronics - Volume 1: AI4IoT; ISBN 978-989-758-661-3, SciTePress, pages 319-321. DOI: 10.5220/0012615400003739

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ai4iot23,
author={Richa Kapoor Mehra},
title={Proposed Way to Inculcate Morality in Artificial Intelligence},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Internet of Things: Accelerating Innovation in Industry and Consumer Electronics - Volume 1: AI4IoT},
year={2023},
pages={319-321},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012615400003739},
isbn={978-989-758-661-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Internet of Things: Accelerating Innovation in Industry and Consumer Electronics - Volume 1: AI4IoT
TI - Proposed Way to Inculcate Morality in Artificial Intelligence
SN - 978-989-758-661-3
AU - Kapoor Mehra R.
PY - 2023
SP - 319
EP - 321
DO - 10.5220/0012615400003739
PB - SciTePress