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Artificial Intelligence, ethics, and diffused pivotality
Klockmann, Victor; Schenk, Alicia von; Villeval, … - 2022
With Big Data, decisions made by machine learning algorithms depend on training data generated by many individuals. In an experiment, we identify the effect of varying individual responsibility for the moral choices of an artificially intelligent algorithm. Across treatments, we manipulated the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012797812
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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Diffused Pivotality
Working Paper Series, GATE; Klockmann, Victor; von … - 2021
With Big Data, decisions made by machine learning algorithms depend on training data generated by many individuals. In an experiment, we identify the effect of varying individual responsibility for moral choices of an artificially intelligent algorithm. Across treatments, we manipulated the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225912
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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Diffused Pivotality
Klockmann, Victor; von Schenk, Alicia; Villeval, Marie … - 2021
With Big Data, decisions made by machine learning algorithms depend on training data generated by many individuals. In an experiment, we identify the effect of varying individual responsibility for moral choices of an artificially intelligent algorithm. Across treatments, we manipulated the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225987
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The virtue ethics hypothesis : is there a nexus between virtues and well-being? : conference paper
Koch, Christian - 2013
(JPubE, 2008), I investigate a reason already proposed by Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics: He claims that there is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336819
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Behavioral Business Ethics as a Method for Normative Business Ethics
Sacconi, Lorenzo - 2012
This paper aims at discussing the role of behavioral business ethics as a methodological approach that is valuable for … the construction of a robust normative foundation for business ethics. In particular, we will focus on experiments – and … suitable to improve our appraisal and knowledge of the prescriptive side of business ethics. We contend that there are two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103342
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The Ethics of Distribution in a Warming Planet
Roemer, John E. - 2013
The discounted-utilitarian social welfare function (DU) is used by the great majority of researchers studying intergenerational resource allocation in the presence of climate change (e.g., W. Nordhaus, M. Weitzman, N. Stern, and P. Dasgupta). I present three justifications for using DU: (1) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753146
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Moral Fictionalism, Preference Moralization and Anti-Conservatism : Why Metaethical Error Theory Doesn't Imply Policy Quietism
Ross, Don - 2007
The evolutionary explanation of human dispositions to prosocial behaviour and to moralization of such behaviour undermines the moral realist's belief in objective moral facts that hold independently of people's contingent desires. At the same time, advocacy of preferences for radical large-scale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012730927
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Markets and Morality : Do Free Markets Corrode Moral Values?
Chen, Daniel L. - 2019
Scholars since Hume and Smith have debated possible causal connections between market experiences and moral beliefs. Here, I study the impact of market interactions on utilitarian versus deontological values, other-regarding preferences, and charitable donations. Through a labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902200
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Dissertation Chapter 1 : What is a Normative Ethical Theory?
Donahue, T. J. - 2007
This Chapter elucidates and defends the following thesis: A theory is a normative ethical theory just in case it claims that a certain set of normative requirements ranges over (a) all actions the performance of which would advance or set back persons' interests, or (b) any states of affairs the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014055344
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Altruism, Impartiality and Moral Demands
De Wispelaere, Jurgen - 2006
Advocates of altruism maintain that altruism is an inherently beneficial and, therefore, morally desirable motivational disposition towards furthering other people's good. In this paper I dispute this claim by showing various ways in which altruism might come into conflict with plausible moral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014056306