期刊
出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0112
关键词
collective action; distributed moral action; distributed moral responsibility; information ethics; network theory; strict liability
资金
- Alan Turing Institute [TU/B/000055] Funding Source: researchfish
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/N02334X/1, EP/N023013/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/N023013/1, EP/N02334X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
The concept of distributed moral responsibility (DMR) has a long history. When it is understood as being entirely reducible to the sum of (some) human, individual and already morally loaded actions, then the allocation of DMR, and hence of praise and reward or blame and punishment, may be pragmatically difficult, but not conceptually problematic. However, in distributed environments, it is increasingly possible that a network of agents, some human, some artificial (e.g. a program) and some hybrid (e.g. a group of people working as a team thanks to a software platform), may cause distributed moral actions (DMAs). These are morally good or evil (i.e. morally loaded) actions caused by local interactions that are in themselves neither good nor evil (morally neutral). In this article, I analyse DMRs that are due to DMAs, and argue in favour of the allocation, by default and overridably, of full moral responsibility (faultless responsibility) to all the nodes/agents in the network causally relevant for bringing about the DMA in question, independently of intentionality. The mechanism proposed is inspired by, and adapts, three concepts: back propagation from network theory, strict liability from jurisprudence and common knowledge from epistemic logic. This article is part of the themed issue 'The ethical impact of data science'.
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