Intelligent
technologies give rise to pressing philosophical and methodological
challenges of theoretical importance and practical relevance. The
present project explores such challenges in three areas: moral
philosophy, legal philosophy, and methodology of sciences. Concerning
moral philos ophy, providers of intelligent technologies are only
partially aware of the ethical issues concerning the technology they
develop, and only partially understand and control how intelligent
technologies arrive at their decisions. This is often perceived as a
threat to the possibility of moral culpability for the negative impact
of intelligent technologies on the world. Concerning legal philosophy
(and law), it is still largely an open question how intelligent
technologies will be, and should be, regulated across different
jurisdictions, and whether international law should step in. Finally, a
methodological reflection of intelligent technologies and their
normative problems is almost lacking. The project will set out to
resolve these timely problems and consider notions that venture beyond
single individuals and their backward-looking responsibility: collective
culpability, vicarious liability, and forward-looking responsibility
will be suggested as appropriate tools to overcome the above problems in
moral and legal philosophy. The project will also methodologically
assess the debate on intelligent technologies in moral and legal
philosophy, and propose an exhaustive and exclusive classification of
techno-responsibility gaps.