The goal of this paper is to lay out the tenets of three metaethical views—expressivism, non-natural realism, and natural realism—and discuss their implications for the design of moral machine learning. In doing so, I will also evaluate the degree to which artificial moral agency may be like human moral agency. I lay out metaethical problems for this project and in doing so aim to affirm the ... read morerelevance of metaethics in the modern world. Moral machine learning is a case of a centuries-old, esoteric field raising issues for one of the most exciting developments in modern science. But, to this point, AI researchers have failed to be explicit about the metaethical assumptions they make.
Thesis (B.A.)--Tufts University, 2022.
Submitted to the Dept. of Philosophy.
Advisor: Patrick Forber.
Committee: Sigrún Svavarsdóttir and Brian Epstein.read less
