I always thought deontology (esp. Kantianism) would be a more interesting moral paradigm to implement programmatically. It's all about formalizing what maxims are, and determine whether they are universalizable in a purely formal sense, thus abstracting away from the impossibly difficult task of evaluating the far-reaching consequences of actions. It's less about empirical facts, and more about the internal logic of the concept of willing. I.e., it's about answering the question: what can one rationally will?