Moral Reasoning Systems [via Argumentation Community Group]

Introduction

Automated reasoning is a branch of artificial intelligence dedicated to
understanding different aspects of reasoning; moral reasoning is reasoning
concerned with morality. Automated moral reasoning is a research topic
pertaining to the understanding of and the modeling and simulation of moral
reasoning.

Moral Reasoning Systems and Education

Four varieties of moral reasoning systems with educational applications to
consider are indicated.

Firstly, there is a variety of moral reasoning system with console-based or
text-based user interfaces, a variety which possibly makes use of custom
programming languages. This variety requires some specialized expertise to use,
resembling, perhaps, computer algebra systems, automated theorem provers and
proof assistants.

Secondly, there is a variety of moral reasoning system with natural language and
multimodal user interfaces. This variety includes dialog systems, virtual
humans, intelligent personal assistants and intelligent tutoring systems. This
variety can conveniently answer, discuss and advise a larger number of users
with regard to questions which they might ask, including in educational
contexts.

Thirdly, there is a variety of moral reasoning system which interoperates with
the processing and generation of stories, fables, parables or exemplums. This
variety can be of use in processing the moral messages of literary texts and
generating literary texts which teach moral messages.

Fourthly, there is a variety of moral reasoning system which interoperates with
interactive simulations and interactive digital entertainment. This variety
interoperates with drama managers, experience managers, virtual interactive
storytellers, virtual directors, and other educational narrative technologies.

Automated Moral Reasoning and Planning 

Automated planning and scheduling is a branch of artificial intelligence
concerned with the realization of strategies or action sequences. Moral
reasoning components should be interoperable with planning and scheduling
components.

Planning is often instrumental to the resultant behavior of intelligent systems
and robotics. Machine ethics, or computational ethics, is a part of the ethics
of artificial intelligence concerned with the moral behavior of artificially
intelligent systems.

Uses of planning are much broader than robotics. Uses of planning extend into
every sector, into industry, academia, science, military and government, and
into public policy. Combinations of planners and moral reasoning can provide
societal benefits transcending robotics and machine ethics.

Conclusion

Moral reasoning systems can provide broad societal benefits including
computer-aided moral reasoning, computer-aided authoring of literature, new
tools for the digital humanities, new decision support and public policy
technologies, and new tools for education.

 

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