Abendvortrag - Catrin Misselhorn

How to Implement Moral Capacities  in Autonomous Artificial Systems? Theoretical Foundations and a Roadmap for a Geriatric Care Robot

The development of increasingly intelligent and autonomous technologies will eventually lead to these systems having to face morally problematic situations. This is particularly true of artificial systems that are used in geriatric care environments. It will, therefore, be important in the long run to develop machines which have the capacity for a certain amount of autonomous moral decision making. The goal of this article is to afford the theoretical foundations for artificial morality, i.e., for implementing moral capacities in artificial systems in general and to discuss them with respect to an assistive system in geriatric care which is capable of moral learning. A conceptual design for the construction of such a system is presented.