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Ethical Regulator Theorem
Mick Ashby's ethical regulator theorem builds upon the Conant-Ashby good regulator theorem, which is ambiguous because being good at regulating does not imply being good ethically. Theorem The ethical regulator theorem claims that the following nine requisites are necessary and sufficient for a cybernetic regulator to be both effective and ethical: # Purpose expressed as unambiguously prioritized goals. # Truth about the past and present. # Variety of possible actions. # Predictability of the future effects of actions. # Intelligence to choose the best actions. # Influence on the regulated system. # Ethics expressed as unambiguously prioritized rules. # Integrity of all subsystems. # Transparency of ethical behavior. Of these requisites, only the first six are necessary for a regulator to be effective. The three requisites of ethics, integrity, and transparency are optional if a system only needs to be effective. This gives rise to the Law of Inevitable Ethical Inadequacy, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethical Regulator System
Ethics is the philosophy, philosophical study of Morality, moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates Normativity, normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches include normative ethics, applied ethics, and metaethics. Normative ethics aims to find general principles that govern how people should act. Applied ethics examines concrete ethical problems in real-life situations, such as abortion, treatment of animals, and Business ethics, business practices. Metaethics explores the underlying assumptions and concepts of ethics. It asks whether there are objective moral facts, how moral knowledge is possible, and how moral judgments motivate people. Influential normative theories are consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics. According to consequentialists, an act is right if it leads to the best consequences. Deontologists focus on acts themselves, saying that they must adhere to Duty, duties, like t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
