Ethics by Agreement in Multi-agent Software Systems

Vivek Nallur, Rem Collier

2019

Abstract

Most attempts at inserting ethical behaviour into autonomous machines adopt the ‘designer’ approach, i.e., the ethical principles/behaviour to be implemented are known in advance. Typical approaches include rule-based evaluation of moral choices, reinforcement-learning, and logic based approaches. All of these approaches assume a single moral agent interacting with a moral recipient. This paper argues that there will be more frequent cases where the moral responsibility for a situation will lie among multiple actors, and hence a designed approach will not suffice. We posit that an emergence-based approach offers a better alternative to designed approaches. Further we outline one possible mechanism by which such an emergent morality might be added into autonomous agents.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Nallur V. and Collier R. (2019). Ethics by Agreement in Multi-agent Software Systems.In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-758-379-7, pages 529-535. DOI: 10.5220/0007958105290535

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft19,
author={Vivek Nallur and Rem Collier},
title={Ethics by Agreement in Multi-agent Software Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2019},
pages={529-535},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007958105290535},
isbn={978-989-758-379-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - Ethics by Agreement in Multi-agent Software Systems
SN - 978-989-758-379-7
AU - Nallur V.
AU - Collier R.
PY - 2019
SP - 529
EP - 535
DO - 10.5220/0007958105290535