Moral Neurolearning by Machines: Artificial Values, Intelligences and Neural Networks

Abstract

The recent success achieved by the companies and sectors whose products and services incorporate Artificial Intelligence (AI) has given rise to a striking and considerably disproportionate increase in expectations with regard to AI’s development and potential. Among other applications, AI is currently linked to the possibility of self-driving cars and algorithmic governance in the political and business worlds. However, considerable concern has been raised about the moral behaviour of the mathematical decision-making models incorporated into AI equipped products. However, just as AI’s outstanding technological issues are not easy to resolve, nor are the moral concerns it prompts. The aim of this chapter is to develop a critical-hermeneutic perspective on this issue and demonstrate the impossibility of developing morally intelligent technology in the present day.