A 21st-century Ethical Hierarchy for Robots and Persons: EH

摘要

I introduce and propose the ethical hierarchy (RH) into which can be placed robots and humans in general. This hierarchy is catalyzed by the question: Can robots be more moral than humans? The light shed by EH reveals why an emphasis on legal obligation for robots, while not unwise at the moment, is inadequate, and why at least the vast majority of today's state-of-the-art deontic logics are morally inexpressive, whether they are intended to formalize the ethical behavior of robots or persons.