An international team of researchers including Joel Parthemore have published an article in the International Journal of Machine Consciousness entitled “Moral Agency, Moral Responsibility, and Artifacts: What Existing Artifacts Fail to Achieve (and Why), and Why They, Nevertheless, Can (and Do!) Make Moral Claims upon Us“.
The article explores the intersection between being an artifact (e.g. a robot) and being a moral agent, as a means of shedding light on the moral claims artifacts can make on us.