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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBHOU-62w0JNg7VdHy3S8fez6JpOhzfWk0rutW6kBZ0b2eWorza067dJ7gMpMIu5CifDWLSyBqfs0SrkfpjipFI_7RiyXio9nOTk59p6U0v2W1iT4wS4F2RbqDCT-6rVH06vfdmgMzIJV4kFyRldd_iKL4ofa6IToHemwWLI4YjITK0DQHH9EFZKnEyEs/s1400/Screenshot%202023-09-21%20at%2010.29.08.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1400" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBHOU-62w0JNg7VdHy3S8fez6JpOhzfWk0rutW6kBZ0b2eWorza067dJ7gMpMIu5CifDWLSyBqfs0SrkfpjipFI_7RiyXio9nOTk59p6U0v2W1iT4wS4F2RbqDCT-6rVH06vfdmgMzIJV4kFyRldd_iKL4ofa6IToHemwWLI4YjITK0DQHH9EFZKnEyEs/w640-h640/Screenshot%202023-09-21%20at%2010.29.08.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>In this episode, Sven and John discuss the controversy arising from the idea moral agency in machines. What is an agent? What is a <em>moral</em> agent? Is it possible to create a machine with a sense of moral agency? Is this desirable or to be avoided at all costs? These are just some of the questions up for debate.</p>
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<p>You can download the episode <a href="https://archive.org/download/episode-6-moral-agency/Episode%206%20-%20Moral%20Agency.mp3">here</a> or listen below. You can also subscribe to the podcast on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-technology-ethics/id1708377677">Apple</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/00iFt9ePf037Tudedd6yP5">Spotify</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly90ZWNobm9sb2d5ZXRoaWNzcG9kLndvcmRwcmVzcy5jb20vY2F0ZWdvcnkvcG9kY2FzdC9mZWVkLw==">Google</a>, <a href="https://q4k0kx5j.r.us-east-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2Fmusic.amazon.co.uk%2Fpodcasts%2Fa41a4607-4ed8-456b-a0c8-f445cd548e89/1/0100018ab7ee556f-e484db15-6f38-455f-8faa-78671f223c86-000000/q9ktagh5VleSqLpki2gT4yiOwD0=340">Amazon</a> and a range of other podcasting services.</p>
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<li>Amanda Sharkey, '<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-017-9425-5">Can we program or train robots to be good</a>?'</li>
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<li>Paul Formosa and Malcolm Ryan, '<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-017-9425-5">Making Moral Machines: Why we need artificial moral agents?</a>'</li>
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<li>Michael Anderson and Susan Leigh Anderson, '<a href="https://ojs.aaai.org/aimagazine/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/2065">Machine ethics: creating an ethical intelligent agent</a>'</li>
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<li>Carissa Véliz, '<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-021-01189-x">Moral zombies: why algorithms are not moral agents</a>'</li>
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