Modeling Ethical Decision-Making

This paper explores whether it is possible to build an autonomous computing system that can make online ethical decisions, and if it possible, then what it takes to build such a system. Firstly, this paper introduces ethical decision-making in the networked economy. Secondly, three ethical theories that are relevant to the business environment are presented. Thirdly, a literature study is presented on the existing models for ethical decision-making. Fourthly, a new model is proposed. This paper concludes with a discussion on how an autonomous computing system could be built based on the new model.