Ethics by Design
Necessity or Curse?
Virginia 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)
Malte S. Kließ (TU Delft - Interactive Intelligence)
Tristan De Wildt (TU Delft - Energy and Industry)
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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.