Michael T. Stuart

Guilty Artificial Minds: Folk Attributions of Mens Rea and Culpability to Artificially Intelligent Agents

While philosophers hold that it is patently absurd to blame robots or hold them morally responsible (e.g. Sparrow, 2007), a series of recent empirical studies suggest that people do ascribe blame to AI systems and robots in certain contexts (e.g. Malle et al. 2016). This is disconcerting: Blame might be shifted from o…