Project

The avataResponsibility project aims to develop an innovative normative framework for moral responsibility in emergent avatar communities that is grounded in a philosophical conceptualisation of the changing concept of avatar agency. This framework considers the way interactions between avatars, individuals, and organisations, which take place in technologically enabled environments, generate intertwined roles and systemic functionalities that ground ascriptions of moral responsibility in emerging avatar communities. These intertwined interactions produce mutual ascriptions of moral responsibility to individual, collective, and artificial members of avatar communities, potentially enhancing or, on the contrary, diminishing human agency and responsibility. The successful delivery of this ethical framework bears direct implications for future regulation regarding ascriptions of responsibility in emergent avatar communities.