Moral Responsibility for AI Systems
Keywords: responsibility, causation, causal models
TL;DR: I develop a formal definition of moral responsibility using causal models that can be applied to (and used by) an AI system.
Abstract: As more and more decisions that have a significant ethical dimension are being outsourced to AI systems, it is important to have a definition of _moral responsibility_ that can be applied to AI systems. Moral responsibility for an outcome of an agent who performs some action is commonly taken to involve both a _causal condition_ and an _epistemic condition_: the action should cause the outcome, and the agent should have been aware - in some form or other - of the possible moral consequences of their action. This paper presents a formal definition of both conditions within the framework of causal models. I compare my approach to the existing approaches of Braham and van Hees (BvH) and of Halpern and Kleiman-Weiner (HK). I then generalize my definition into a _degree of responsibility_.
Submission Number: 7613
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