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Responsibility gaps and retributive dispositions: evidence from the US, Japan and Germany

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2024
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Kneer, M., & Christen, M. (2024). Responsibility gaps and retributive dispositions: evidence from the US, Japan and Germany. Science and Engineering Ethics, 30(6), 51. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-024-00509-w

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Danaher (2016) has argued that increasing robotization can lead to retribution gaps: Situations in which the normative fact that nobody can be justly held responsible for a harmful outcome stands in conflict with our retributivist moral dispositions. In this paper, we report a cross-cultural empirical study based on Sparrow’s (2007) famous example of an autonomous weapon system committing a war crime, which was conducted with participants from the US, Japan and Germany. We find that (1) people manifest a considerable willingness to ho

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30

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6

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51

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Responsibility gap, Autonomous weapon systems, Artificial intelligence, Retribution, Robotics

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English

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2024-10-17

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2024-12-30

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1353-3452

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31 since deposited on 2024-12-30
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54 since deposited on 2024-12-30
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Acq. date: 2025-11-13

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Kneer, M., & Christen, M. (2024). Responsibility gaps and retributive dispositions: evidence from the US, Japan and Germany. Science and Engineering Ethics, 30(6), 51. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-024-00509-w

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