Agency Laundering and Information Technologies.
When agents insert technological systems into their decision-making processes, they can obscure moral responsibility for the results. This can give rise to a distinct moral wrong, which we call "agency laundering." At root, agency laundering involves obfuscating one's moral responsibility by enlisti...
| Publicado en: | Ethical Theory & Moral Practice Vol. 22; no. 4; pp. 1017 - 1042 |
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