Nallur, VivekVivekNallurCollier, RemRemCollier2019-08-122019-08-122019-07-28978-989-758-379-7http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1098114th International Conference on Software Technologies, Prague, Czech Republic, 26 - 28 July 2019Most attempts at inserting ethical behaviour into autonomous machines adopt the ‘designer’ approach, i.e., the ethical principles/behaviour to be implemented are known in advance. Typical approaches include rule-based evaluation of moral choices, reinforcement-learning, and logic based approaches. All of these approaches assume a single moral agent interacting with a moral recipient. This paper argues that there will be more frequent cases where the moral responsibility for a situation will lie among multiple actors, and hence a designed approach will not suffice. We posit that an emergence-based approach offers a better alternative to designed approaches. Further we outline one possible mechanism by which such an emergent morality might be added into autonomous agents.enEthicsAutonomous SystemsBottom-upNegotiationConference Publication52953510.5220/00079581052905352019-08-09https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/