Bad Bots: Retribution

Is there a retribution gap? In an interesting and carefully argued paper John Danaher argues that in respect of robots, there is. For human beings in normal life he argues that a fairly broad conception of responsibility works OK. Often enough we don't even need to distinguish between causal and moral responsibility, let alone worrying about the six or more different types identified by hair-splitting philosophers. However, in the case of autonomous robots the sharing out of responsibility gets more difficult.