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The participation of AI in society is expected to increase significantly, and with that the scope, intensity and significance of morally-burdened effects produced or otherwise related to AI, and the possible future advent of AGI. There is a lack of a comprehensive ethical framework for AI and AGI, which can help manage moral scenarios in which artificial entities are participants. Therefore, I propose the foundations of such a framework in this text, and suggest that it can enable artificial entities to make morally sound decisions in complex moral scenarios.
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Namely, in the moral landscape, agents are those that take actions and thus cause morally-burdened effects; while moral patients are those entities which morally-burdened effects are effected/caused to.
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Under resources here are understood all parts of the world which a system can use instrumentally to pursue its imperatives i.e. both ‘traditional’ ones such as raw materials, energy source(s), food, water, minerals etc. but also time, situations, rules, other systems and their parts, and anything else of utility.
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Dameski, A. (2018). A Comprehensive Ethical Framework for AI Entities: Foundations. In: Iklé, M., Franz, A., Rzepka, R., Goertzel, B. (eds) Artificial General Intelligence. AGI 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10999. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97676-1_5
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