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<p>As automation in artificial intelligence is increasing, we will need to automate a growing amount of ethical decision making. However, ethical decision- making raises novel challenges for engineers, ethicists and policymakers, who will have to explore new ways to realize this task. The presented work focuses on the development and formalization of models that aim at ensuring a correct ethical behaviour of artificial intelligent agents, in a provable way, extending and implementing a logic-based proving calculus that is based on argumentation reasoning with support and attack arguments. This leads to a formal theoretical framework of ethical competence that could be implemented in artificial intelligent systems in order to best formalize certain parameters of ethical decision-making to ensure safety and justified trust.</p>
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As automation in artificial intelligence is increasing, we will need to automate a growing amount of ethical decision making. However, ethical decision- making raises novel challenges for engineers, ethicists and policymakers, who will have to explore new ways to realize this task. The presented work focuses on the development and formalization of models that aim at ensuring a correct ethical behaviour of artificial intelligent agents, in a provable way, extending and implementing a logic-based proving calculus that is based on argumentation reasoning with support and attack arguments. This leads to a formal theoretical framework of ethical competence that could be implemented in artificial intelligent systems in order to best formalize certain parameters of ethical decision-making to ensure safety and justified trust.

Argumentation-Based Logic for Ethical Decision Making

National Technical University of Athens 9

Studia Humana

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As automation in artificial intelligence is increasing, we will need to automate a growing amount of ethical decision making. However, ethical decision- making...

Argumentation-Based Logic for Ethical Decision Making

Published Online: Jan 05, 2023

Page range: 46 - 52

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sh-2022-0015

Keywords
argumentation, argumentation logic, decision-making, ethics, artificial intelligence

© 2022 Sofia Almpani et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Argumentation-Based Logic for Ethical Decision Making

Published Online: Jan 05, 2023

Page range: 46 - 52

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sh-2022-0015

Keywordsargumentation, argumentation logic, decision-making, ethics, artificial intelligence

© 2022 Sofia Almpani et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
argumentation, argumentation logic, decision-making, ethics, artificial intelligence