  Artificial intelligence (AI) was initially developed as an implicit moral
agent to solve simple and clearly defined tasks where all options are
predictable. However, it is now part of our daily life powering cell phones,
cameras, watches, thermostats, vacuums, cars, and much more. This has raised
numerous concerns and some scholars and practitioners stress the dangers of AI
and argue against its development as moral agents that can reason about ethics
(e.g., Bryson 2008; Johnson and Miller 2008; Sharkey 2017; Tonkens 2009; van
Wynsberghe and Robbins 2019). Even though we acknowledge the potential threat,
in line with most other scholars (e.g., Anderson and Anderson 2010; Moor 2006;
Scheutz 2016; Wallach 2010), we argue that AI advancements cannot be stopped
and developers need to prepare AI to sustain explicit moral agents and face
ethical dilemmas in complex and morally salient environments.
