Hartford International University for Religion and Peace is launching what it describes as the first doctoral degree focused on artificial intelligence and moral agency. The new degree reflects growing demand for specialists who can examine how automated systems affect responsibility, belief and decision-making. Hartford International University announced a doctorate titled AI and Moral Agency.
The institution described it as the first doctoral degree organized around that specific subject. The program is housed at a historically interreligious divinity school rather than an engineering department. Universities have rapidly added AI certificates, master's programs and research centers, but most are based in computing or business schools.
Coursework is designed to connect artificial intelligence with ethics, religion, governance and human responsibility. The degree is intended for researchers and professionals examining AI's effects on institutions and public life. Moral agency concerns who or what can be held responsible for actions and decisions, a question complicated by automated systems.
Religious and philosophical traditions provide distinct frameworks for responsibility, personhood and the limits of delegation.
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