# Moral Responsibility **Entity class:** Ethical concept **Domain:** Ethics / Agency **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Moral responsibility is the condition under which an agent can appropriately be held answerable for choices, omissions, or consequences. ## Mechanism and significance Judgments of responsibility depend on agency, knowledge, control, alternatives, social role, and coercion, which complicates attempts to transfer accountability from human institutions to machines. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#AI Control, Law, and Alignment|AI Control, Law, and Alignment]] - **Primary fields:** [[AI Control]] · [[AI Safety]] · [[Self-Reflection]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Hippocratic AI]] · [[Deployment Economics as Alignment]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Historical, scientific, fictional, and philosophical uses remain distinguishable; the node does not turn analogy or narrative architecture into empirical proof.