Is the Objectivist Ethics for Artificial Intelligence Possible? Five Theses on “Moral Machines”

In recent years, philosophers, social scientists, and computer scientists have vi­gorously discussed the reality of employing artificial intelligence (AI) agents in everyday life practices and interactions. This paper seeks to contribute to these debates by exploring the use of Ayn Rand’s “objectivist ethics” to guide the development and usage of AI technologies. The theoretical foundations of the paper are the following: a) the idea that AI agents cannot be called moral in a proper sense; b) the concept of “artificial sociality”; c) the typology of paradigms of social intercourse. The authors consider the critical provisions of objectivist ethics regarded as a variation of virtue ethics. They show that objectivist ethics is a reasonable basis for integrating AI tools into society. At the same time, significant limitations of this ethical concept in its consideration of the social and existential dimensions of human existence make it difficult for humans to accept it.

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