MORAL AGENCY BETWEEN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ROBOTS

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https://doi.org/10.26512/pl.v13i30.55527

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Artificial Intelligence. Smart Agents. Moral Agency. Robots. Responsibility.

Abstract

This article aims to understand the relationships between artificial intelligence, robots and moral agency philosophically. The advance of artificial intelligence has changed the forms of thought and behavior of human beings in society. For our work, we will start from the following problem: if we attribute to artificial intelligence a moral agency, then artificial intelligence can be morally responsible? Our hypothesis to verify is that if artificial intelligence simulates moral actions in decision making, then a moral agency only simulates forms of moral responsibility. This proposal is justified due to the contemporary importance of philosophy for the understanding and debate of theoretical concepts involving artificial intelligence. These theoretical concepts are intelligent agents, algorithms, machine learning (machine learning), big data (large amount of computable data), cognition, information, logic, neural networks, among others.

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Maurício Cavalcante Rios, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Bahia

Possui graduação em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal da Bahia (2005), mestrado em Ensino, Filosofia e História das Ciências pela Universidade Federal da Bahia (2014) e doutorado em Ensino, Filosofia e História das Ciências pela Universidade Federal da Bahia (2023). Atualmente é membro pesquisador da Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia, membro: estudante - Society for social Studies of Science, membro pesquisador da Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia, grupo de pesquisa: estudante da Universidade Federal da Bahia e professor efetivo ensino médio e superior do Instituto Federal da Bahia. Tem experiência na área de Filosofia, com ênfase em Filosofia, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: filosofia, filosofia da ciência, ciência, inteligência artificial e educação. 

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Published

2025-03-31

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Cavalcante Rios, M. (2025). MORAL AGENCY BETWEEN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ROBOTS. PÓLEMOS – Revista De Estudantes De Filosofia Da Universidade De Brasília, 13(30), 78–101. https://doi.org/10.26512/pl.v13i30.55527

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