Detection of Hidden Moralities in the Energy Transition: An explorative study for the development of a research method

In light of recent failures in policy dossiers with regard to the identification of need claims of citizens, participatory procedures have been made mandatory for municipalities in the constitution of a carbon-neutral energy system. However, the legitimacy of mainstream participatory procedures is limited because guidelines for public...

Evaluating catastrophic forgetting of state-of-the-art NLP models for predicting moral values

Personal moral values represent the motivation behind individuals' actions and opinions. Understanding these values is helpful both in predicting individuals' actions, such as violent protests, and building AI that can better collaborate with humans. Predicting moral values is a challenging problem due to the abstract and subjective essence of...

Evaluating interpretability of state-of-the-art NLP models for predicting moral values

Understanding personal values is a crucial aspect that can facilitate the collaboration between AI and humans. Nonetheless, the implementation of collaborative agents in real life greatly depends on the amount of trust that is built in their relationship with people. In order to bridge this gap, more extensive analysis of the explainability of...

Estimating the transferability of state-of-the-art models in predicting moral values

Moral values play a crucial role in our decision-making process by defining what is right and wrong. With the emergence of political activism and moral discourse on social media, and the latest developments in Natural Language Processing, we are looking at an opportunity to analyze moral values to observe trends as they form. Recent studies have...

Agency perception and moral values related to Autonomous Weapons: An empirical study using the Value-Sensitive Design approach

The purpose of this empirical study is to gain insight in how Autonomous Weapons are perceived by the general public and the military and which moral values they consider important when Autonomous Weapons are deployed in the near future. The Value-Sensitive Design method is used to structure the study. This thesis proposes a design for a Moral...