Responsibility Gaps and Retributive Dispositions: Evidence from the US, Japan and Germany.

IF 2.7 2区 哲学 Q1 ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Markus Kneer, Markus Christen
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Abstract

Danaher (2016) has argued that increasing robotization can lead to retribution gaps: Situations in which the normative fact that nobody can be justly held responsible for a harmful outcome stands in conflict with our retributivist moral dispositions. In this paper, we report a cross-cultural empirical study based on Sparrow's (2007) famous example of an autonomous weapon system committing a war crime, which was conducted with participants from the US, Japan and Germany. We find that (1) people manifest a considerable willingness to hold autonomous systems morally responsible, (2) partially exculpate human agents when interacting with such systems, and that more generally (3) the possibility of normative responsibility gaps is indeed at odds with people's pronounced retributivist inclinations. We discuss what these results mean for potential implications of the retribution gap and other positions in the responsibility gap literature.

责任差距与报应处置:来自美国、日本和德国的证据。
Danaher(2016)认为,机器人化程度的提高会导致报应差距:在这种情况下,没有人会对有害结果承担公正责任的规范事实与我们的报应主义道德倾向相冲突。在本文中,我们报告了一项跨文化实证研究,该研究基于斯帕罗(2007 年)著名的自主武器系统犯下战争罪的例子,参与者来自美国、日本和德国。我们发现:(1) 人们非常愿意让自主系统承担道义责任;(2) 在与此类系统互动时,部分人可以开脱人类代理人的责任;更广泛地说,(3) 规范责任差距的可能性确实与人们明显的报应主义倾向相悖。我们将讨论这些结果对报应差距和责任差距文献中其他立场的潜在影响。
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Science and Engineering Ethics
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10.70
自引率
5.40%
发文量
54
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>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Science and Engineering Ethics is an international multidisciplinary journal dedicated to exploring ethical issues associated with science and engineering, covering professional education, research and practice as well as the effects of technological innovations and research findings on society. While the focus of this journal is on science and engineering, contributions from a broad range of disciplines, including social sciences and humanities, are welcomed. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, ethics of new and emerging technologies, research ethics, computer ethics, energy ethics, animals and human subjects ethics, ethics education in science and engineering, ethics in design, biomedical ethics, values in technology and innovation. We welcome contributions that deal with these issues from an international perspective, particularly from countries that are underrepresented in these discussions.
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