Moral Agents for Sustainable Transitions: Ethics, Politics, Design

artificial moral agents; behaviour change; more-than-human; sustainable HCI; Agent systems; Artificial moral agent; Behaviour changes; Moral agents; Moral reasoning; More-than-human; Social and environmental; Social sustainability; Sustainable HCI; System change; Human-Computer Interaction; Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design; Software

Abstract :

[en] Artificial moral agents - systems that engage in explicit moral reasoning on their own and with users - present a potential new paradigm for behavior and system change for social and environmental sustainability. Moral agents could replace current individualist, prescriptive, inflexible, and opaque interventions with systems that transparently state their values and then openly deliberate and contest these with users, or agents that represent human and non-human stakeholders such as future generations, species, or ecosystems. Indeed, moral agents could mark a genuine new form of more-than-human interactions and human-technology relation, where we relate to artificial systems as a counterpart. To jointly articulate key questions and possible futures around moral agents, this workshop convenes HCI, AI, behaviour change, and critical and speculative design researchers and practitioners.

Disciplines :

Social & behavioral sciences, psychology: Multidisciplinary, general & others

Author, co-author :

Laschke, Matthias ; University of Siegen, Interaction Design for Sustainability and Transformation, Siegen, Germany

Bucher, Amy ; Lirio, Knoxville, United States

Coulton, Paul ; Lancaster University, ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Hassenzahl, Marc ; University of Siegen, Ubiquitous Design / Experience & Interaction, Siegen, Germany

Kuijer, Lenneke ; Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven, Netherlands

LALLEMAND, Carine ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) > Cognitive Science and Assessment ; Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Lockton, Dan ; Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Ludden, Geke ; University of Twente, Department of Design, Production and Management, Twente, Netherlands

Deterding, Sebastian ; Imperial College London, Dyson School of Design Engineering, London, United Kingdom

External co-authors :

yes

Language :

English

Title :

Moral Agents for Sustainable Transitions: Ethics, Politics, Design

Publication date :

19 April 2023

Event name :

Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Event date :

23-04-2023 => 28-04-2023

Audience :

International

Main work title :

CHI 2023 - Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Publisher :

Association for Computing Machinery

ISBN/EAN :

978-1-4503-9422-2

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

Additional URL :

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3544549.3573814

Funders :

ACM SIGCHI

Funding text :

This work was supported in part by the MOVEN research group, an interdisciplinary group funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (01UU2204A).

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