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At present, although artificial intelligence (AI) has made great progress in the aspects of control policy and operation, there is still no unified ethical decision mode, laws and regulations in ethical dilemma, which seriously affect application and development of artificial intelligence. Therefore, this paper studies and analyzes various ethical decision mode of AI system, then the current research status and advantages, deficiencies of these decision modes are analyzed and summarized. According to the characteristics of the current ethical decision modes and existing problems, the future implementation mode for the future ethical decision of artificial intelligence is explored and discussed. A hierarchical hybrid ethical decision mode will be proposed and designed, which has the advantages of the existing ethical decision modes. In addition, it will provide a few references for research, design and formulation of laws, regulations of AI.
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Acknowledgement this study was funded by the Science and Technology Research Project of Jiangxi Education Department (Grant no. GJJ201911).
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Liu, G., Luo, Y. & Sheng, J. Discussion of ethical decision mode for artificial intelligence. AI & Soc 39, 767–773 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-022-01447-6
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