The Role of Ethics in Autonomous Decision Making: Advancements in Artificial Moral Agents

The expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies necessitates a critical exploration of their ethical implications, especially in developing Artificial Moral Agents (AMAs) with autonomous decisions that lack alignment with human ethical standards. This paper reviews the current landscape of ethical challenges in AI and explores philosophical foundations, and methodologies for equipping AMAs with ethical principles. It discusses ethical theories, conceptualization, ideology, and virtue, highlighting the need for integrating ethical principles into AI frameworks. Moreover, it emphasizes a hybrid approach to ethical reasoning, blending top-down and bottom-up methodologies to enhance moral decision-making. The review identifies key ethical principles—beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, justice, and loyalty—and examines their technical application across AI models, highlights gaps in practical implementation, suggests pathways for future research, including using cognitive architecture, interdisciplinary collaboration, and context-sensitive ethical guidelines to improve trustworthy AI systems. These insights aim to enhance the ethical integrity and social acceptability of AI technologies.

کلیدواژه ها:

Moral ، Ethics ، Artificial Intelligence ، Artificial Moral Agents (AMA) ، Moral Decision Making ، Ethics Agents