Ethical Choice in Unforeseen Circumstances
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چکیده
For autonomous systems to be allowed to share environments with people, their manufacturers need to guarantee that the system behaves within acceptable legal, but also ethical, limits. Formal verification has been used to test if a system behaves within specified legal limits. This paper proposes an ethical extension to a rational agent controlling an Unmanned Aircraft(UA). The resulting agent is able to distinguish among possible plans and execute the most ethical choice it has. We implement a prototype and verify that when an agent does behave unethically, it does so because none more ethical possibility is available.
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