Meta-ethics and AI: exploring the novel meta-ethical questions in the era of AI

arXiv:2609.01685 · cs.AI, cs.CY · Submitted 2026-09-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CY

Submitted: 2026-09-01

Updated: 2026-09-01

Journal ref: AI and Ethics (2026), 6, Article 281

DOI: 10.1007/s43681-026-01134-y

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Alignment — 13× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cooperation — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 6× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Accountability — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ontology — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Sycophancy — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Adaptation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Objective Function — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Artificial General Intelligence — 2× in this paper
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embodied AI — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Axioms — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Deep Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Explainability — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Meta-learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Metacognition — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Parsimony — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reasoning Traces — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• World Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

Sources

• Adaptive Alignment: Dynamic Preference Adjustments via Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Pluralistic AI
• Ethical Artificial Intelligence
• Metaethical Perspectives on 'Benchmarking' AI Ethics
• Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents

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