Why machines cannot be moral

The fact that real-world decisions made by artificial intelligences (AI) are often ethically loaded has led a number of authorities to advocate the development “moral machines”. I argue project building “ethics” “into” machines presupposes flawed understanding nature ethics. Drawing on work Australian philosopher, Raimond Gaita, ethical dilemmas problems for particular people and not (just) everyone who faces similar situation. Moreover, force an claim depends in part life history person is making it. For both these reasons, could at best be engineered provide shallow simulacrum ethics, which would have limited utility confronting policy associated with AI.