Seminar Blame, responsibility and agency

The idea of an artificially intelligent deliberative agent (d-agent) is presented. It is argued that such an agent, even if is nonculpable and not phenomenally conscious, could be said to have both a kind of moral agency and patienthood. The claim is not that any existing system has met the requirements for such status; rather, it is that it is not hard to imagine producing a system that could meet the requirements. The idea of a space of agencies is presented to capture some of the respects in which we might be both similar to and different from the kind of AI d-agent being imagined.