Human agency and responsible computing: implications for computer system design
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue on computer ethics
Thinking Computers and Virtual Persons: Essays on the Intentionality of Machines
Thinking Computers and Virtual Persons: Essays on the Intentionality of Machines
Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence
Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence
On the Morality of Artificial Agents
Minds and Machines
Ethics and Information Technology
Computer Systems and Responsibility: A Normative Look at Technological Complexity
Ethics and Information Technology
Computer systems: Moral entities but not moral agents
Ethics and Information Technology
Ethics and Information Technology
Ethical pluralism and global information ethics
Ethics and Information Technology
The Trouble With Culture: How Computers Are Calming the Culture Wars
The Trouble With Culture: How Computers Are Calming the Culture Wars
Assembling transparency and accountability: a citizen-candidate-social media collaboration
Proceedings of the 2012 iConference
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The growing prominence of computers in contemporary life, often seemingly with minds of their own, invites rethinking the question of moral responsibility. If the moral responsibility for an act lies with the subject that carried it out, it follows that different concepts of the subject generate different views of moral responsibility. Some recent theorists have argued that actions are produced by composite, fluid subjects understood as extended agencies (cyborgs, actor networks). This view of the subject contrasts with methodological individualism: the idea that actions are produced only by human individuals. This essay compares two views of responsibility: moral individualism (the ethical twin of methodological individualism), and joint responsibility (associated with extended agency theory). It develops a view of what joint responsibility might look like, and considers the advantages it might bring relative to moral individualism as well as the objections that are sure to be raised against it.