Ethical approaches and autonomous systems Abstract   In this paper we consider how the three main approaches to ethics xe2x80x93 deontology, consequentialism and virtue ethics xe2x80x93 relate to the implementation of ethical agents. We provide a description of each approach and how agents might be implemented by designers following the different approaches. Although there are numerous examples of agents implemented within the consequentialist and deontological approaches, this is not so for virtue ethics. We therefore propose a novel means of implementing agents within the virtue ethics approach. It is seen that each approach has its own particular strengths and weaknesses when considered as the basis for implementing ethical agents, and that the different approaches are appropriate to different kinds of system.

Normative and Fuzzy Aspects of Medical AI Normative and fuzzy aspects of Medical AI are examined and a framework is presented for the purpose of designing architectures that can accommodate the lifelong growth of data and knowledge pertaining to an individualu0027s health, together with relevant privileges and permissions for access, growth and utilization of such a system. Considering disease through the normativistic perspective advanced by SadeghZadeh, an actiontheoretical analysis is adopted suitable for Medical AI. In this approach diseases are viewed as social artifacts mapped into deontic constructs. In a sense, they are action provoking states of affairs amenable to fuzzy computational approaches that in the past have found broad applicability to industrial process control.