Ethics by Design

Necessity or Curse?

Conference paper (2018)

Authors

M.V. Dignum Umeå University
Matteo Baldoni University of Turin
Cristina Baroglio University of Turin
Maurizio Caon University of Fribourg
Raja Chatila Sorbonne Université, Paris
Louise Dennis University of Liverpool
Gonzalo Génova Carlos III University of Madrid
M.S. Kließ Interactive Intelligence - EEMCS
T.E. de Wildt Energy and Industry
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Research Group
Interactive Intelligence (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2018 M.V. Dignum, Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Maurizio Caon, Raja Chatila, Louise Dennis, Gonzalo Génova, M.S. Kließ, T.E. de Wildt, More Authors
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3278721.3278745
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Published Date

2018

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Intelligent Systems

Research Group

Interactive Intelligence

Abstract

Ethics by Design concerns the methods, algorithms and tools needed to endow autonomous agents with the capability to reason about the ethical aspects of their decisions, and the methods, tools and formalisms to guarantee that an agent's behavior remains within given moral bounds. In this context some questions arise: How and to what extent can agents understand the social reality in which they operate, and the other intelligences (AI, animals and humans) with which they co-exist? What are the ethical concerns in the emerging new forms of society, and how do we ensure the human dimension is upheld in interactions and decisions by autonomous agents?. But overall, the central question is: "Can we, and should we, build ethically-aware agents?" This paper presents initial conclusions from the thematic day of the same name held at PRIMA2017, on October 2017.

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