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

Kneer, Markus; Christen, Markus (2024). Responsibility gaps and retributive dispositions: evidence from the US, Japan and Germany. Science and Engineering Ethics, 30(6):51.

Abstract

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 hold autonomous systems morally responsible, (2) partially exculpate human agents when interacting with such systems, and that more generally (3) the possibility of normative responsibility gaps is indeed at odds with people’s pronounced retributivist inclinations. We discuss what these results mean for potential implications of the retribution gap and other positions in the responsibility gap literature.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Philosophy
04 Faculty of Medicine > Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine
08 Research Priority Programs > Digital Society Initiative
Dewey Decimal Classification:100 Philosophy
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > Health (social science)
Health Sciences > Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects
Health Sciences > Health Policy
Social Sciences & Humanities > Management of Technology and Innovation
Uncontrolled Keywords:Responsibility gap, Autonomous weapon systems, Artificial intelligence, Retribution, Robotics
Language:English
Date:17 October 2024
Deposited On:30 Dec 2024 16:23
Last Modified:31 Jan 2025 02:41
Publisher:Springer
ISSN:1353-3452
OA Status:Hybrid
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-024-00509-w
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