Technology with No Human Responsibility?

Journal of Business Ethics · 2015 · Volume 127 · Issue 4

Abstract

A more extended analysis of the law of agency as it might apply to artificial agents is found in Chopin and White (2012).(Accessed athttp://www.amazon.com/Robot-Futures-Illah-Reza-Nourbakhsh/dp/0262018624/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1375020104&sr=1-1&keywords=future+of+robots, July 28, 2013).Elsewhere I have explored the varying conceptions of autonomy that are being used in this discourse; see M. Noorman and D.G. Johnson, “Negotiating Autonomy and Responsibility in Military Robots”,Ethics and Information Technology, forthcoming.Google has succeeded in convincing several municipalities to allow Google’s so-called autonomous cars to operate in their areas but these cars are not unmanned.Although the idea will not be taken up here, it is worth noting that the notion of an incomprehensible and uncontrollable technology needs to be unpacked for many current technologies are incomprehensible and uncontrollable to some but not to others.

Keywords

Artificial Agent, Future Technology, Learning Automaton, Moral Standing, Responsibility Practice

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