Ethics as Aesthetic for Artificial General Intelligence

We address the question of how to build AI agents that behave ethically by appealing to a computational creativity framework in which output artifacts are agent behaviors and candidate behaviors are evaluated using a normative ethics as the aesthetic measure. We then appeal again to computational creativity to address the meta-level question of which normative ethics the system should employ as its aesthetic, where now output meta-artifacts are normative ethics and candidate ethics are evaluated using a meta-ethics-based aesthetic. We consider briefly some of the issues raised by such a proposal as well as how the hybrid base-meta-level system might be evaluated from three different perspectives: creative, behavioral and ethical.