Moral Agents for Sustainable Transitions: Ethics, Politics, Design

Matthias Laschke; Amy Bucher; Paul Coulton; Marc Hassenzahl; Lenneke Kuijer; Carine Lallemand; Dan Lockton; Geke Ludden; Sebastian Deterding

doi:10.1145/3544549.3573814

Moral Agents for Sustainable Transitions: Ethics, Politics, Design

Matthias Laschke
, Amy Bucher
, Paul Coulton
, Marc Hassenzahl
, Lenneke Kuijer
, Carine Lallemand
, Dan Lockton
, Geke Ludden
, Sebastian Deterding

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

4 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Artificial moral agents - systems that engage in explicit moral reasoning on their own and with users - present a potential new paradigm for behavior and system change for social and environmental sustainability. Moral agents could replace current individualist, prescriptive, inflexible, and opaque interventions with systems that transparently state their values and then openly deliberate and contest these with users, or agents that represent human and non-human stakeholders such as future generations, species, or ecosystems. Indeed, moral agents could mark a genuine new form of more-than-human interactions and human-technology relation, where we relate to artificial systems as a counterpart. To jointly articulate key questions and possible futures around moral agents, this workshop convenes HCI, AI, behaviour change, and critical and speculative design researchers and practitioners.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI EA '23
Subtitle of host publication	Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Albrecht Schmidt, Kaisa Väänänen, Tesh Goyal, Per Ola Kristensson, Anicia Peters
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-9422-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3573814
Publication status	Published - 19 Apr 2023
Event	2023 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023 - Hamburg, Germany Duration: 23 Apr 2023 → 28 Apr 2023 https://chi2023.acm.org

Conference

Conference	2023 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023
Abbreviated title	CHI 2023
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Hamburg
Period	23/04/23 → 28/04/23
Internet address	https://chi2023.acm.org

Funding

This work was supported in part by the MOVEN research group, an interdisciplinary group funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (01UU2204A).

Funders	Funder number
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung	01UU2204A

Keywords

artificial moral agents
behaviour change
more-than-human
sustainable HCI

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Laschke, M., Bucher, A., Coulton, P., Hassenzahl, M., Kuijer, L., Lallemand, C., Lockton, D., Ludden, G., & Deterding, S. (2023). Moral Agents for Sustainable Transitions: Ethics, Politics, Design. In A. Schmidt, K. Väänänen, T. Goyal, P. O. Kristensson, & A. Peters (Eds.), CHI EA '23: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 359 Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3573814

Laschke, Matthias ; Bucher, Amy ; Coulton, Paul et al. / Moral Agents for Sustainable Transitions : Ethics, Politics, Design. CHI EA '23: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. editor / Albrecht Schmidt ; Kaisa Väänänen ; Tesh Goyal ; Per Ola Kristensson ; Anicia Peters. New York : Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2023.

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Laschke, M, Bucher, A, Coulton, P, Hassenzahl, M, Kuijer, L , Lallemand, C, Lockton, D, Ludden, G & Deterding, S 2023, Moral Agents for Sustainable Transitions: Ethics, Politics, Design. in A Schmidt, K Väänänen, T Goyal, PO Kristensson & A Peters (eds), CHI EA '23: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 359, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., New York, 2023 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023, Hamburg, Germany, 23/04/23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3573814

Moral Agents for Sustainable Transitions: Ethics, Politics, Design. / Laschke, Matthias; Bucher, Amy; Coulton, Paul et al.
CHI EA '23: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Albrecht Schmidt; Kaisa Väänänen; Tesh Goyal; Per Ola Kristensson; Anicia Peters. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2023. 359.

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