Previous research has shown that the fairness and the legitimacy of a moral decision-maker are important for people's acceptance of and compliance with the decision-maker. As technology rapidly advances, there have been increasing hopes and concerns about building artificially intelligent entities that are designed to intervene against norm violations. However, it is unclear how people would perceive artificial moral regulators that impose punishment on human wrongdoers. Grounded in theories of psychology and law, we predict that the perceived fairness of punishment imposed by a robot would increase the legitimacy of the robot functioning as a moral regulator, which would in turn, increase people's willingness to accept and comply with the robot's decisions. We close with a conceptual framework for building a robot moral regulator that successfully can regulate norm violations.

翻译：先前的研究显示,道德决策者的公平和合法性对于人们接受和遵守决策者至关重要。随着技术的迅速发展,人们对于建立旨在干预违反规范行为的人工智能实体的希望和关切日益增长。然而,人们如何看待人为道德监管机构以惩罚人类不法行为者尚不清楚。 以心理学和法律理论为依据,我们预测机器人所施加的惩罚被认为公平,将会提高机器人作为道德监管机构运作的合法性,而这反过来又会提高人们接受和遵守机器人决定的意愿。 我们接近于建立一个能够成功监管违反规范行为的机器人道德监管机构的概念框架。