Moral Agents for Sustainable Transitions: Ethics, Politics, Design

Matthias Laschke; Amy  Bucher; Paul Coulton; Marc Hassenzahl; Lenneke Kuijer; Carine Lallemand; Dan Lockton; Geke Ludden; Sebastian Deterding

doi:10.1145/3544549.3573814

Moral Agents for Sustainable Transitions: Ethics, Politics, Design

Matthias Laschke
, Amy Bucher
, Paul Coulton
, Marc Hassenzahl
, Lenneke Kuijer
, Carine Lallemand
, Dan Lockton
, Geke Ludden
, Sebastian Deterding

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI'23
Subtitle of host publication	Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Chapter	WS032
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-9422-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3573814
Publication status	Published - 19 Apr 2023
Event	CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023 - Hamburg, Germany Duration: 23 Apr 2023 → 28 Apr 2023

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Conference	CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023
Abbreviated title	CHI 2023
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Hamburg
Period	23/04/23 → 28/04/23

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Laschke, M., Bucher, A., Coulton, P., Hassenzahl, M., Kuijer, L., Lallemand, C., Lockton, D., Ludden, G., & Deterding, S. (2023). Moral Agents for Sustainable Transitions: Ethics, Politics, Design. In CHI'23: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 359 Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3573814

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Moral Agents for Sustainable Transitions: Ethics, Politics, Design. / Laschke, Matthias; Bucher, Amy ; Coulton, Paul et al.
CHI'23: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, 2023. 359.

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