Possibly of local interest: Research on moral reasoning in intelligent agents by the Renssalear AI and Reasoning Lab.
(I come from a machine learning background, and so I am predisposed to look down on the intelligent agents/cognitive modelling folks, but the project description in this press release just seems laughable. And if the goal of the research is to formalize moral reasoning, why the link to robotic/military systems, besides just to snatch up US military grants?)
I did not find the project so laughable. It's hopelessly outdated in the sense that logical calculus does not deal with incomplete information, and I suspect that they simply conflate "moral" with "utilitarian" or even just "decision theoretic".
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