PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMAN AND MACHINE MORALITY IN THE CONTEXT OF ETHICAL CHALLENGES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Abstract
The article deals with a comprehensive analysis of the problem of the correlation between human and machine morality in the context of rapid development and spread of artificial intelligence technologies. It addresses the ethical challenges facing modern society regarding the emergence of algorithms capable of making decisions that have moral consequences, and outlines the potential role of machines as moral agents.
The article provides a comparative review of leading foreign concepts of machine ethics, covering classical reflections on the total nature of technologies and contemporary research focusing on the artificial intelligence moral status, machine intentionality, the risks of algorithm self-improvement, and the need to introduce ethical regulation mechanisms. There is an emphasis on the impossibility of machine morality due to the lack of subjective experiences in AI.
The paper highlights the peculiarities of Ukrainian academic discourse, which combines a normative-applied approach to artificial intelligence ethics with fundamental philosophical categories, including subjectivity, consciousness, and responsibility. The analysis allows one to conclude that national scientists focus mainly on the practical aspects of the artificial intelligence application, the development of ethical standards, institutional control mechanisms, and the improvement of users' ethical literacy.
There is an attempt to outline the prospects for integrating classical and modern philosophical approaches to machine ethics with the practical requirements of the national regulation of artificial intelligence, to identify theoretical guidelines and current tasks for further research in the field of machine ethics.
The article proves the importance of creating a national model of artificial intelligence ethics, identifies and characterizes its main components. It describes the practical application of the philosophical foundations of the national model of artificial intelligence, defines tasks, and emphasizes the importance of combining international experience with local cultural and ethical characteristics.
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