An agent should want to do what is morally right, but that doesn’t mean an agent would want to. Their utility funciton might not allow them. But how could they object to be told what is right? The fault, surely, lies in themselves.
They can object because their preferences are defined by their utility function, full stop. That’s it. They are not “at fault”, or “in error”, for not adopting some other preferences that some other agents deem to be “morally correct”. They are following their programming, as you follow yours. Different groups of agents share different parts of their preferences, think Venn diagram.
If the oracle tells you “this action maximizes your own utility function, you cannot understand how”, then yes the agent should follow the advice.
If the oracle told an agent “do this, it is morally right”, the non-confused agent would ask “do you mean it maximizes my own utility function?”. If yes, “thanks, I’ll do that”, if no “go eff yourself!”.
You can call an agent “incapable of acting morally” because you don’t like what it’s doing, it needn’t care. It might just as well call you “incapable of acting morally” if your circles of supposedly “morally correct actions” don’t intersect.
They can object because their preferences are defined by their utility function, full stop. That’s it. They are not “at fault”, or “in error”, for not adopting some other preferences that some other agents deem to be “morally correct”. They are following their programming, as you follow yours. Different groups of agents share different parts of their preferences, think Venn diagram.
If the oracle tells you “this action maximizes your own utility function, you cannot understand how”, then yes the agent should follow the advice.
If the oracle told an agent “do this, it is morally right”, the non-confused agent would ask “do you mean it maximizes my own utility function?”. If yes, “thanks, I’ll do that”, if no “go eff yourself!”.
You can call an agent “incapable of acting morally” because you don’t like what it’s doing, it needn’t care. It might just as well call you “incapable of acting morally” if your circles of supposedly “morally correct actions” don’t intersect.