Article history: Received: 18-06-2015 Revised: 24-09-2015 Accepted: 11-11-2015

As artificial agents are becoming more complex (autonomous, proactive, etc.) and common in our everyday life, the need for an ethical design of such agents is becoming more compelling, especially if the focus is on persuasiveness [Stock et al., to appear] Examples of agents of this kind are already in sight: systems for preventive medicine, edutainment, dynamic advertisement, social action. In ...

In this paper, two computational models of ethical reasoning, one that compares pairs of truth-telling cases and one that retrieves relevant past cases and principles when presented with an ethical dilemma, are described and discussed. Lessons learned from developing and experimenting with the two systems, as well as challenges of building programs that reason about ethics, are discussed. Final...

Deontic logic is a very well researched branch of mathematical logic and philosophy. Various kinds of deontic logics are considered for different application domains like argumentation theory, legal reasoning, and acts in multi-agent systems. In this paper, we show how standard deontic logic can be used to model ethical codes for multi-agent systems. Furthermore we show how Hyper, a high perfor...

In this paper we study how to characterize ethical agents in normative multi-agent systems. We adopt a proposition control game together with input/output logic. Norms create the normative status of strategies. Agents’ preference in proposition control games are changed by the normative status of strategies. We distinguish four ethical types of agents: moral, amoral, negatively impartial and po...

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ethics has become the bridge between morals, values, patient needs and effective treatment. medical ethics has a 2500 year history in medical education, but  it has only been in the last 30 years that it has come to terms of formal inclusion in medical curricula(1) .the purpose of contemporary dental education is that graduates will be competent in clinic and patient care with high level of  kn...

We are entering an era where “intelligent” machines have unprecedented power over humans, including, sometimes, the literal power of life and death. Machine learning algorithms are increasingly used to classify humans as suspected terrorists or deserving recipients of financial aid. While military drones are currently flown by human operators, discussions about fully autonomous robotic soldiers...

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of a year-long internship on undergraduate psychology students’ ethical sensitivity and reasoning using a repeated-measures design. Students’ ethical sensitivity was measured by the Quick Racial and Ethical Sensitivity Test and ethical reasoning was measured by the Defining Issues Test -2. Based on the analysis, the internship experience had a ...

AIM This paper is a report of a study to explore nurses' responses to ethical dilemmas in daily nursing practice. BACKGROUND Concern about nurses' ethical competence is growing. Most nurses perceived that there were barriers in their work environment to ethical practice, compromising their ability to perform ethically. Since most research focuses on contextual barriers to nurses' ethical prac...