From computational ethics to morality: how decision-making algorithms can help us understand the emergence of moral principles, the existence of an optimal behaviour and our ability to discover it

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11119v1
• Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:39:08 GMT
• Title: From computational ethics to morality: how decision-making algorithms can help us understand the emergence of moral principles, the existence of an optimal behaviour and our ability to discover it
• Authors: Eduardo C. Garrido-Merch\'an, Sara Lumbreras-Sancho
• Abstract summary: This paper adds to the efforts of evolutionary ethics to naturalize morality by providing insights derived from a computational ethics view. We propose a stylized model of human decision-making, which is based on Reinforcement Learning.
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• Abstract: This paper adds to the efforts of evolutionary ethics to naturalize morality by providing specific insights derived from a computational ethics view. We propose a stylized model of human decision-making, which is based on Reinforcement Learning, one of the most successful paradigms in Artificial Intelligence. After the main concepts related to Reinforcement Learning have been presented, some particularly useful parallels are drawn that can illuminate evolutionary accounts of ethics. Specifically, we investigate the existence of an optimal policy (or, as we will refer to, objective ethical principles) given the conditions of an agent. In addition, we will show how this policy is learnable by means of trial and error, supporting our hypotheses on two well-known theorems in the context of Reinforcement Learning. We conclude by discussing how the proposed framework can be enlarged to study other potentially interesting areas of human behavior from a formalizable perspective.

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