Constantinescu Lab

Research focus

ERC Starting Grant · 2023

Avatar agency. Moral responsibility at the intersection of individual, collective, and artificial social entities in emergent avatar communities.

This project investigates how avatar agency impacts practices of ascribing moral responsibility in emergent avatar communities (Metaverse, augmented Metaverse, and Human-Cybernetic Avatar societies). These communities challenge traditional frameworks of agency and moral responsibility. The unprecedented persistent and continuous use of multiple avatars by both humans and organisations, has the potential to permeate prior boundaries of the physical, the augmented and the virtual world. We propose a dynamic normative framework of ascribing moral responsibility that is grounded in a philosophical conceptualisation of avatar agency. This framework considers the way interactions between avatars,…

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