Reasons for Meaningful Human Control

Abstract ”Meaningful human control” is a term invented in the political and legal debate on autonomous weapons system, but it nowadays also used many other contexts. It supposed to specify conditions under which an artificial system right kind of control avoid responsibility gaps: that is, situations no moral agent responsible. Santoni de Sio Van den Hoven have recently suggested framework can be by designers operationalize this control. purpose paper facilitate further operationalization ”meaningful control”. This consists two parts. In first part I resolve ambiguity plagues current operationalizations MHC. One design says should track reasons relevant agents. condition ambiguous between involved. On one interpretation motivating reasons, while concerned with normative other. Current participants interpret as being (something vicinity of) reasons. argue against showing meaningful requires tracks Moreover, maintain fails morally problematic. When properly understood, shown MHC committed agent-relativity More precisely, second if tracking plays important role attribution (as proponents view maintain), then incompatible first-order theories hold are agent-neutral (such versions consequentialism). final section present three ways forward for proponent reason-responsiveness.