Artificial morality basic device: transistor for mimicking morality logics

The extensive application of increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence in life has promoted the artificial morality (AM) issue. The establishment and implementation of artificial ethics for robots are usually solved by passive program instructions, while active realization at the hardware level remains challenging. Here, inspired by cognitive psychology and neurophysiology, a typical AM device is demonstrated. The first of the three laws of robotics is realized in this device by judging good and evil and solving moral dilemmas. The device exhibits the three states of ego, id, and superego and the six humanities of the categorical imperative, instinctive disregard, instinctive impulse, moral deontology, utilitarianism, and egoism. The origin of morality is revealed in terms of electronics, which is an adversarial collaboration between the subconscious and the conscious. This work provides a practicable path for the consciousness generation and moral formation of artificial intelligence in the future.