Theological Foundations for Moral Artificial Intelligence

and characterize its historically contextualized moral norms. As an initial foray into development of an integrative framework, I describe an AI system that could plausibly be constructed with effort comparable to other major AI initiatives, and that would have the capacity to consider itself as a moral actor (a precursor to moral agency).2 Constructing such a system would open up new possibilities for moral AI, enable sophisticated modeling of human morality, and lead to new insights into ethics and moral behavior. Closer at hand, my proposal identifies issues in AI and morality that require both computational and ethical expertise to resolve and are not well known and understood across the necessary disciplines.