Against the moral Turing test: accountable design and the moral reasoning of autonomous systems

Thomas Arnold and Matthias Scheutz

We argue in this paper that the idea of a "moral Turing test" is insufficient for an ethical evaluation of an autonomous system's behavior. We propose that verification, where the behavior of a system is designed for transparency and explicitly represents decision-making based on norms, is a better standard of evaluation.

@article{arnold2016against,
  title={Against the moral Turing test: accountable design and the moral reasoning of autonomous systems},
  author={Thomas Arnold and Matthias Scheutz},
  year={2016},
  journal={Ethics and Information Technology},
  publisher={Springer},
  volume={18},
  pages={103--115}
  url={https://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/arnold2016against.pdf}
}