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    Hiding Behind Machines: Artificial Agents May Help to Evade Punishment
    with Jan Gogoll and Matthias Uhl
    Science and Engineering Ethics 28 (2): 1-19. 2022.
    The transfer of tasks with sometimes far-reaching implications to autonomous systems raises a number of ethical questions. In addition to fundamental questions about the moral agency of these systems, behavioral issues arise. We investigate the empirically accessible question of whether the imposition of harm by an agent is systematically judged differently when the agent is artificial and not human. The results of a laboratory experiment suggest that decision-makers can actually avoid punishmen…Read more