Dina Babushkina holds a PhD in History of Philosophy and is finishing her doctorate studies in Ethics. Her current research focus is on the ethics of AI and roboethics. Dina is interested in responsible robotics and AI (incl. artificial moral agency, programming morality to AI, and ethical principles of algorithmic solutions) and a multidisciplinary approach to these topics. She has been working in the projects “Ethical Actions by Robots” and “Towards Responsible AI” (University of Helsinki), researching ethical problems arising from the employment of robots and AI in social and medical spheres. Previously, Dina researched and published on moral psychology and normative ethics.
My concern is the preservation of rationally justifiable moral practices which face challenges because of the increasing integration of social robots into roles previously occupied exclusively by persons. I will focus on the attribution of responsibility and blaming as examples of such practices. I will argue that blaming robots (a) does not satisfy the rational constraints on the reactive attitude of blame and other related reactive attitudes and practices such as resentment, forgiving, and punishment, and (b) is by itself morally wrong.
