Machine Ethics and the Future of Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Artificial intelligence is still a technological advancement for human intelligence, our digital extension with better senses and memory. There is a significant group of scientists who claim that fears of self-thinking robots are unfounded. With a little effort, robotic decision-making can be decomposed into logical factors that are free of feelings and emotions. And even if there is an unpredictable behaviour, an erasure or code modification can be performed in the machine memory. Such a reduction problems related to Artificial Intelligence to technical control is, however, driven by scientific positivism. The study analyses the moral dilemmas associated with the dynamic development in the AI area and three possible scenarios of future developments in this area.