Artificial intelligence moral agent as Adam Smith's impartial spectator

TL;DR

This paper explores the concept of an external AI-based moral agent acting as an impartial spectator to enhance human moral decision-making by providing more knowledge, impartiality, and perspective.

Contribution

It proposes the idea of using an AI as an external impartial spectator to augment human moral reasoning, inspired by Adam Smith's philosophy.

Findings

AI can serve as an external impartial observer in moral judgments.

Potential for AI to improve moral decision quality through greater knowledge and impartiality.

Framework for integrating AI as a moral agent in human decision processes.

Abstract

Adam Smith developed a version of moral philosophy where better decisions are made by interrogating an impartial spectator within us. We discuss the possibility of using an external non-human-based substitute tool that would augment our internal mental processes and play the role of the impartial spectator. Such tool would have more knowledge about the world, be more impartial, and would provide a more encompassing perspective on moral assessment.