[HTML][HTML] Applying ethical theories to the decision-making of self-driving vehicles: A systematic review and integration of the literature

F Poszler, M Geisslinger, J Betz, C Lütge - Technology in Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Self-driving vehicles (SDVs)–above the SAE automation level 4–are designed to operate
without human intervention [1]. Due to the expected advantages attributed to SDVs, such as …

Generating Deontic Obligations From Utility-Maximizing Systems

C Shea-Blymyer, H Abbas - Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
This work gives a logical characterization of the (ethical and social) obligations of an agent
trained with Reinforcement Learning (RL). An RL agent takes actions by following a utility …

Attention-Based Real-Time Defenses for Physical Adversarial Attacks in Vision Applications

G Rossolini, A Biondi, G Buttazzo - 2024 ACM/IEEE 15th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep neural networks exhibit excellent performance in computer vision tasks, but their
vulnerability to real-world adversarial attacks, achieved through physical objects that can …

Deontic Temporal Logic for Formal Verification of AI Ethics

S Rao - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.05765, 2025 - arxiv.org
Ensuring ethical behavior in Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems amidst their increasing
ubiquity and influence is a major concern the world over. The use of formal methods in AI …

Proof Theory and Decision Procedures for Deontic STIT Logics

TS Lyon, K van Berkel - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2024 - jair.org
This paper provides a set of cut-free complete sequent-style calculi for deontic STIT ('See To
It That') logics used to formally reason about choice-making, obligations, and norms in a …

An Ethical and Risk-aware Framework for Motion Planning of Autonomous Vehicles

MMH Geißlinger - 2024 - mediatum.ub.tum.de
Due to unavoidable accident risks, decisions in the motion planning of autonomous vehicles
have a complex moral component. Decisions previously made by humans will be executed …

How to Reason About the Obligations of Autonomous Systems

C Shea-Blymyer - 2024 - ir.library.oregonstate.edu
In this dissertation we investigate how to reason about an autonomous system's obligations.
In particular, we explore how to verify, elicit, and enforce rules about how a system should …

On Testing Ethical Autonomous Decision-Making

ME Akintunde, M Brandão, G Jahangirova… - … Formal Methods for …, 2023 - Springer
We present an initial proposal for a testing framework for ethical decisions in autonomous
agents, based on the well-known perception-action model. We identify three main …

[PDF][PDF] A Complete Bibliography of ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCPS)

NHF Beebe - 2024 - netlib.org
A Complete Bibliography of ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCPS) Page 1
A Complete Bibliography of ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCPS) Nelson …

[PDF][PDF] Deontic Logic for Normative Autonomous Systems

C Shea-Blymyer - 2021 - engr.oregonstate.edu
As autonomous systems become more ubiquitous, the ability to represent and reason about
their behaviors becomes more important. Normative autonomous systems are those systems …