How are we to ensure that autonomous machines act ethically? Teaching machines ethics, or getting them to follow whatever the community favors, may not work. Instead, one can use AI to find out what the ethical preferences of its human users are, in a way similar to how we learn about consumer...

A communitarian approach to bioethics adds a core value to a field that is often more concerned with considerations of individual autonomy. Some interpretations of liberalism put the needs of the patient over those of the community; authoritarian communitarianism privileges the needs of society...