The generality of decision and game theory has enabled domain-independent progress in AI research. For example, a better algorithm for finding good policies in (PO)MDPs can be instantly used in a variety of applications. But such a general theory is lacking when it comes to moral decision making. For AI applications with a moral component, are we then forced to build systems based on many ad-ho...

More advanced and complex applications, such as serious games, where physical and virtual environments interchange with human and artificial agents and along heavy social simulations, require another sort of architectures. With the enlarging autonomy comes an increased need to ensure that their behaviour is in line what we expect from them. Therefore, a combination of intelligence and ethics be...

Story understanding is a central competence that illuminates all other aspects of human intelligence. In this work, I demonstrate how our story understanding ability sheds light on our ability to think in terms of hypothetical situations. Using the Genesis story understanding system as a substrate, I develop a story-enabled hypothetical reasoning system that models several high-level human abil...

A specific form of human and artificial intelligence is needed for an efficient practice or a successful implementation of a moral code. The actual stage and rate of progress in AI studies are generated by their orientation to develop mainly an abstract intelligence form. We propose the integrated analysis of the intelligence as of the morality, considered as systems with internal structure. Is...

This chapter will argue that artificial agents created or synthesized by technologies such as artificial life (ALife), artificial intelligence (AI), and in robotics present unique challenges to the traditional notion of moral agency and that any successful technoethics must seriously consider that these artificial agents may indeed be artificial moral agents (AMA), worthy of moral concern. This...

Does sharing moral values encourage people to connect and form communities? The importance of moral homophily (love of same) has been recognized by social scientists, but the types of moral similarities that drive this phenomenon are still unknown. In this talk, I will present a series of experiments (both large-scale, observational social-media analyses and behavioral lab experiments) that inv...