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Moral artificial intelligence and machine puritanism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2023

Jean-François Bonnefon Open the ORCID record for Jean-François Bonnefon [Opens in a new window]
Jean-François Bonnefon*
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Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse, France jean-francois.bonnefon@tse-fr.eu; https://jfbonnefon.github.io/
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Abstract

Puritanism may evolve into a technological variant based on norms of delegation of actions and perceptions to artificial intelligence. Instead of training self-control, people may be expected to cede their agency to self-controlled machines. The cost–benefit balance of this machine puritanism may be less aversive to wealthy individualistic democracies than the old puritanism they have abandoned.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e297
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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