@misc{10481/78791,
year = {2023},
month = {1},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/78791},
abstract = {In most domains of human life, we are willing to accept that there are experts with greater knowledge and competencies that distinguish them from non-experts or laypeople. Despite this fact, the very recognition of expertise curiously becomes more controversial in the case of “moral experts”. Do moral experts exist? And, if they indeed do, are there ethical reasons for us to follow their advice? Likewise, can emerging technological developments broaden our very concept of moral expertise? In this article, we begin by arguing that the objections that have tried to deny the existence (and convenience) of moral expertise are unsatisfactory. After that, we show that people have ethical reasons to ask for a piece of moral advice in daily life situations. Then, we argue that some Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems can play an increasing role in human morality by becoming moral experts. Some AI-based moral assistants can qualify as artificial moral experts and we would have good ethical reasons to use them.},
organization = {This article is part of the research project EthAI+3 (Digital Ethics. Moral Enhancement through an Interactive Use of Artificial Intelligence), funded by the State Research Agency of the Spanish Government (PID2019-104943RB-I00) and the project SOCRAI3 (Moral Enhancement and Artificial Intelligence. Ethical aspects of a virtual Socratic assistant), funded by FEDER Junta de Andalucía (B-HUM-64-UGR20). Jon Rueda thanks the funding of an INPhINIT Retaining Fellowship of the La Caixa Foundation (Grant number LCF/BQ/DR20/11790005).},
keywords = {Artificial intelligence},
keywords = {Dialogical assistant},
keywords = {Moral advice},
keywords = {Moral expertise},
title = {Artificial moral experts: asking for ethical advice to artificial intelligent assistants},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-022-00246-5},
author = {Rodríguez-López, Blanca and Rueda Etxebarria, Jon},
}