Moral Intelligence for Human and Artificial Agents

A specific form of human and artificial intelligence is needed for an efficient practice or a successful implementation of a moral code. The actual stage and rate of progress in AI studies are generated by their orientation to develop mainly an abstract intelligence form. We propose the integrated analysis of the intelligence as of the morality, considered as systems with internal structure. Is prepared an artificial ethics, which is not an application of the human ethics, but an outcome of moral invention, and which can be equally practised by humans and machines. Human and artificial beings are acting and interacting now in an artificial technical environment which is partially an intellectual environment. Machines cumulate multiple and meaningful functions related to man and society. Artificial agents are created not only for assist, but for replacing humans in processes as fabrication, business, services, communication, researches, education or entertainment. Their conduct receives thus a moral signification. This more and more artificial world, generated by man-machine interaction, produces not just complication of the machine, but of the man himself and of its moral values. Human species evolves in all its dimensions: biotical, psychical, social and cultural: now it evolves towards artificiality. Even as a biotical (natural) being, man evolves to artificiality: in our process of aging and decreasing, we receive more and more artificial components and we become more and more robots. Society evolves too, mainly under the influence of the information technology advances: we have now an information society or even a knowledge society. The cultural dimension of humans is also transformed and a technical man is born. All types of values are renewed, because of the emergence of new human needs, often satisfied by virtual relations and virtual means, in a virtual environment. Moral values change their content, appear new values and the entire hierarchy of moral values is now modified. Starting from the fact that human and artificial agents are going now to explore and to populate a global virtual intellectual environment, we anticipate a movement from the ethics of the virtue to a virtual ethics. Human morality tends to become more complex and hard practicable because of its diversity and relativity, being often reduced in practice to the professional deontology. Even past and present moral theories (ethical systems) present serious weaknesses, now analytically studied by computer ethics. Such conceptual problems, which can make difficult the work of moral norms as …