Bulletin No. 1, 2021

THE NEW GOSPEL ACCORDING TO A.I. 25 choices it makes have moral significance, like a decision to save a life, it is amoral agent.’ Onemight arguewhatever the machine does, it is still driven by the goal set by humans. However, it may also be argued that humans themselves are ultimately motivated by external factors like genetics in each of their actions. If this less stringent view is correct, then we are already seeing or could very soon be seeing machines with moral agency, examples being self-driving cars and autonomous weapons. But even if a machine can be somewhat of a moral agent on a theoretical level, it is another story in the real world. In 2017, the European Parliament contemplated a proposal for AI machines to be made legal persons considering how they can cause human injuries and deaths as machines like industrial robots have. As Professor Mik pointed out, though, the proposal was plainly impractical. ‘Just use your common sense. Let’s say this machine that assembles cars is granted legal personhood. What next?