Moral Machines: Using Natural Morality to Guide Artificial Morality

Abstract

Increasingly autonomous machines are entering our everyday lives and it is important that they do not make it worse. Apart from safety, the development of artificial morality is extensively occupying philosophers and engineers. Importantly, the only kind of morality we have known is our own. In this paper, I overview the biological and evolutionary basis of human morality and the main approaches to artificial morality. I then discuss important aspects of natural morality that should be of crucial consideration for the field of artificial morality if we want to make future human-robot societies sustainable and flourishing.