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An Ethics Evaluation Tool for Automating Ethical Decision-Making in Robots and Self-Driving Cars

Ethical decision-making in roboticsAcademicdocument

Assessment outcome

total 2/4 (actionability 1 + authority 1); currency unscored, so pro-rated to 3.0/6

Total2/6
Actionability1/2
Authority1/2
Currency—

Authorship & scope

Attribution (G4 evidence)

Authored by Jason Millar from the Department of Philosophy, Carleton University.

Issuer authority (evidence)

Level 1 (capped): the quote establishes a journal venue but does not establish the peer-review status required for Level 2.

Issuers, who it governs, legal force and content are on the full record.

Eligibility gates

G1 · Retrievablepass

HTTP 200, 11623 words of full text extracted

G2 · AI nexuspass

The paper focuses explicitly on automating ethical decision-making in robotics and artificial intelligence.

G3 · Governance nexuspass

It addresses ethical evaluation, governance issues, and design principles for automated decision-making systems.

G4 · Attributablepass

Authored by Jason Millar from the Department of Philosophy, Carleton University.

G5 · In forcepass

The source is an academic journal article without any retraction or supersession notice.

Scored criteria

Actionability

1/2

Level 1: Provides general ethical direction and principles for designers without specifying concrete, binding implementation steps. [quote matched canonical, not verbatim]

When automating ethical decision-making, designers must not create technology that subjects users to morally problematic paternalism.

Authority

1/2

Level 1 (capped): the quote establishes a journal venue but does not establish the peer-review status required for Level 2.

Applied Artificial Intelligence An International Journal ISSN: 0883-9514 (Print) 1087-6545 (Online) Journal homepage: www.tandfonline.com/journals/uaai20 An Ethics Evaluation Tool for Automating Ethical Decision-Making in Robots and Self-Driving Cars Jason Millar To cite this article: Jason Millar (2016) An Ethics Evaluation Tool for Automating Ethical Decision-Making in Robots and Self-Driving Cars, Applied Artificial Intelligence, 30:8, 787-809, DOI: 10.1080/08839514.2016.1229919

Currency

—

computed: no publish/modified date found on the page (never guessed)

Classification

Coverage topicEthical decision-making in robotics
PerspectiveAcademic
Lifecycle stage1 Plan & design
Layerboth
Granularitydocument