A Soft Constraint-Based Framework for Ethical Reasoning

Hiroshi Hosobe, Ken Satoh

2024

Abstract

Artificial intelligence is becoming more widely used for making decisions in many application areas, where it often needs to consider legal rules and ethical norms. However, ethical norms are more difficult to treat than legal rules that have logical nature. Taheri et al. proposed a framework that formalized several important aspects of ethical decision making. However, their framework is still not powerful enough for more general problem solving. In this paper, we propose a soft constraint-based framework for ethical reasoning. Especially by devising the notion of norm constraints, we integrate Taheri et al.’s framework into Borning et al.’s constraint hierarchy framework for treating soft constraints. We also present a case study on the application of our framework to ethical reasoning.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hosobe H. and Satoh K. (2024). A Soft Constraint-Based Framework for Ethical Reasoning. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART; ISBN 978-989-758-680-4, SciTePress, pages 1354-1361. DOI: 10.5220/0012474100003636

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart24,
author={Hiroshi Hosobe and Ken Satoh},
title={A Soft Constraint-Based Framework for Ethical Reasoning},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART},
year={2024},
pages={1354-1361},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012474100003636},
isbn={978-989-758-680-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART
TI - A Soft Constraint-Based Framework for Ethical Reasoning
SN - 978-989-758-680-4
AU - Hosobe H.
AU - Satoh K.
PY - 2024
SP - 1354
EP - 1361
DO - 10.5220/0012474100003636
PB - SciTePress