Reasoning about responsibility in autonomous systems: challenges and opportunities

V Yazdanpanah, EH Gerding, S Stein, M Dastani… - Ai & Society, 2023 - Springer
Ensuring the trustworthiness of autonomous systems and artificial intelligence is an
important interdisciplinary endeavour. In this position paper, we argue that this endeavour …

Macro ethics principles for responsible AI systems: Taxonomy and directions

J Woodgate, N Ajmeri - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Responsible AI must be able to make or support decisions that consider human values and
can be justified by human morals. Accommodating values and morals in responsible …

[PDF][PDF] Axies: Identifying and Evaluating Context-Specific Values.

E Liscio, M van der Meer, LC Siebert, CM Jonker… - AAMAS, 2021 - repository.tudelft.nl
The pursuit of values drives human behavior and promotes cooperation. Existing research is
focused on general (eg, Schwartz) values that transcend contexts. However, context-specific …

[PDF][PDF] Value inference in sociotechnical systems

E Liscio, R Lera-Leri, F Bistaffa… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - enricoliscio.github.io
As artificial agents become increasingly embedded in our society, we must ensure that their
behavior aligns with human values. Value alignment entails value inference, the process of …

What values should an agent align with? An empirical comparison of general and context-specific values

E Liscio, M van der Meer, LC Siebert… - Autonomous Agents and …, 2022 - Springer
The pursuit of values drives human behavior and promotes cooperation. Existing research is
focused on general values (eg, Schwartz) that transcend contexts. However, context-specific …

Macro ethics for governing equitable sociotechnical systems

JM Woodgate, N Ajmeri - … Agents and Multi …, 2022 - research-information.bris.ac.uk
The evolving relationship between humans and technology entails increasing concerns
about the impact on ethical issues such as bias, unfairness, and lack of accountability. There …

On specifying for trustworthiness

DB Abeywickrama, A Bennaceur, G Chance… - Communications of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
On Specifying for Trustworthiness Page 1 AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS (AS) are systems that
involve software applications, machines, and people—that is, systems that can take action with …

Many hands make many fingers to point: challenges in creating accountable AI

SC Slota, KR Fleischmann, S Greenberg, N Verma… - Ai & Society, 2023 - Springer
Given the complexity of teams involved in creating AI-based systems, how can we
understand who should be held accountable when they fail? This paper reports findings …

Encoding ethics to compute value-aligned norms

M Serramia, M Rodriguez-Soto, M Lopez-Sanchez… - Minds and …, 2023 - Springer
Norms have been widely enacted in human and agent societies to regulate individuals'
actions. However, although legislators may have ethics in mind when establishing norms …

[PDF][PDF] Elessar: Ethics in norm-aware agents

N Ajmeri, H Guo, PK Murukannaiah… - Proceedings of the 19th …, 2020 - csc2.ncsu.edu
We address the problem of designing agents that navigate social norms by selecting
ethically appropriate actions. We present Elessar, a framework in which agents aggregate …