The Jiminy Advisor: Moral Agreements Among Stakeholders Based on Norms and Argumentation
Beishui Liao, Pere Pardo, Marija Slavkovik, Leendert van der Torre

TL;DR
The paper introduces Jiminy, an ethical recommendation system for autonomous agents that integrates stakeholder moral views using normative systems and argumentation to resolve dilemmas and explain decisions.
Contribution
It presents a novel framework combining normative systems and formal argumentation to achieve moral agreements among stakeholders in autonomous systems.
Findings
Jiminy effectively resolves moral dilemmas using three methods.
The system can generate explanations for ethical decisions.
Jiminy demonstrates practical application in autonomous ethical reasoning.
Abstract
An autonomous system is constructed by a manufacturer, operates in a society subject to norms and laws, and interacts with end users. All of these actors are stakeholders affected by the behavior of the autonomous system. We address the challenge of how the ethical views of such stakeholders can be integrated in the behavior of an autonomous system. We propose an ethical recommendation component called Jiminy which uses techniques from normative systems and formal argumentation to reach moral agreements among stakeholders. A Jiminy represents the ethical views of each stakeholder by using normative systems, and has three ways of resolving moral dilemmas that involve the opinions of the stakeholders. First, the Jiminy considers how the arguments of the stakeholders relate to one another, which may already resolve the dilemma. Secondly, the Jiminy combines the normative systems of the…
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TopicsEthics and Social Impacts of AI · Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
