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Ethics of Autonomous Collective Decision-Making: The Caesar Framework

In recent years, autonomous systems have become an important research area and application domain, with a significant impact on modern society. Such systems are characterized by different levels of autonomy and complex communication infrastructures that allow for collective decision-making strategie...

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Autores principales: Frasheri, Mirgita, Struhar, Vaclav, Papadopoulos, Alessandro Vittorio, Causevic, Aida
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9700612/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36434417
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11948-022-00414-0
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Sumario:In recent years, autonomous systems have become an important research area and application domain, with a significant impact on modern society. Such systems are characterized by different levels of autonomy and complex communication infrastructures that allow for collective decision-making strategies. There exist several publications that tackle ethical aspects in such systems, but mostly from the perspective of a single agent. In this paper we go one step further and discuss these ethical challenges from the perspective of an aggregate of autonomous systems capable of collective decision-making. In particular, in this paper, we propose the Caesar approach through which we model the collective ethical decision-making process of a group of actors—agents and humans, as well as define the building blocks for the agents participating in such a process, namely Caesar agents. Factors such as trust, security, safety, and privacy, which affect the degree to which a collective decision is ethical, are explicitly captured in Caesar. Finally, we argue that modeling the collective decision-making in Caesar provides support for accountability.