Constantinescu, M. & Crisp, R. (2022). Can robotic AI systems be virtuous and why does this matter?. International Journal of Social Robotics, 14, 1547–1557.
Contribution: raising a virtue-ethics-based concern regarding deployment of social robots relying on deep learning AI and developing a novel argumentation to show that robotic AI systems cannot genuinely be virtuous but can only behave in a virtuous way; highlighting implications for current research in machine ethics, technology ethics, and Human–Robot Interaction.