Moral Orthoses: A New Approach to Human and Machine Ethics

XAI, explainable AI, and the DARPA program to provide that. The European Commission has legislated a demand (Order GDPR 2016/2679) specifying that deployed machine learning systems must explain their decisions. The commission has done this even though no one knows how to provide what they are requiring. What would follow if we and machines are in roughly the same position with respect to the transparency of our ethical decision-making? I want to reintroduce the notion of orthosis into ethical explanation: medically, an orthosis is an externally applied device designed and fitted to the body to aid rehabilitation, and usually contrasted with a prosthesis, which replaces a missing part, like a foot or leg. Here, it will mean an explanatory software agent associated with a human or machine.