ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the ethical consequences of such a development, i.e., how intelligent robots will take over many of the functions previously performed by humans. It is possible that it is too early to roll out ethics boards in all the organizations involved in the development of artificial intelligence. With such a definition of morality, both animals and intelligent robots can possess morality, and thus be understood to be moral agents. To distinguish human morality from intelligent robots as moral agents, one can define the morality of intelligent robots as being artificial morality. Most intelligent robots are ethically blind, i.e., they do not have ethical intelligence programmed into their decision-making capacity. Does an intelligent robot have relational capacity, that is, the ability to develop, maintain and deepen relationships? The robots will increasingly imitate human behaviour in many ways, and most will probably gain an understanding of the phenomenon of social inclusion and exclusion.
