elisa freschiTeaching ethics to a machine? You need some casuistic reasoning – elisa freschi https://elisafreschi.com These pages are a sort of virtual desktop of Elisa Freschi. You can find here my cv and some random thoughts on Sanskrit (and) Philosophy. All criticism welcome! Contributions are also welcome! Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:06:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Teaching ethics to a machine? You need some casuistic reasoning https://elisafreschi.com/2018/08/07/teaching-ethics-to-a-machine-you-need-some-casuistic-reasoning/ https://elisafreschi.com/2018/08/07/teaching-ethics-to-a-machine-you-need-some-casuistic-reasoning/#comments Tue, 07 Aug 2018 14:44:00 +0000 elisa freschi http://elisafreschi.com/?p=2809 Marcus Arvan convincingly argues in this article that while programming AI you can produce psychopathic behaviours both if you decide not to teach any moral target AND if you decide to teach moral targets.
Instead, you need to teach your machine some flexibility. Thus, I would argue, moral reasoning used for machines needs to be adjusted through a large set of cases and through rules dealing with specific cases. Can the Mīmāṃsā case-based application of rules help in such cases?

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