EETAS: A Process for Examining Ethical Trade-Offs in Autonomous Systems

Catherine Menon; Silvio Carta; Frank  Foerster

doi:10.5220/0011560900003323

EETAS: A Process for Examining Ethical Trade-Offs in Autonomous Systems

Catherine Menon, Silvio Carta, Frank Foerster

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Public-facing autonomous systems present society with significant ethical challenges, not least of which is the need for stakeholder understanding and discussion of how these systems balance competing ethical principles. In this paper we present EETAS: a structured, gamified process for obtaining stakeholder input into the ethical balances and trade-offs which they consider it acceptable for a proposed autonomous system to make. We describe how outcomes from the EETAS process can be used to inform the design of specified autonomous systems, as well as how the process itself can improve stakeholder engagement and public understanding of ethics in AI and autonomous systems. In support of this we present the findings from an initial EETAS pilot study workshop, which shows an indicative trend of improvement in public understanding and engagement with AI following participation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - CHIRA 2022
Publisher	Science and Technology Publications
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	978-989-758-609-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5220/0011560900003323
Publication status	Published - 9 Nov 2022
Event	6th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Valletta, Malta Duration: 27 Oct 2022 → 28 Oct 2022 Conference number: 6

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Conference	6th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications
Abbreviated title	CHIRA 2022
Country/Territory	Malta
City	Valletta
Period	27/10/22 → 28/10/22

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Menon, C, Carta, S & Foerster, F 2022, EETAS: A Process for Examining Ethical Trade-Offs in Autonomous Systems. in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - CHIRA 2022. Science and Technology Publications, 6th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications
, Valletta, Malta, 27/10/22. https://doi.org/10.5220/0011560900003323

EETAS: A Process for Examining Ethical Trade-Offs in Autonomous Systems. / Menon, Catherine; Carta, Silvio; Foerster, Frank .
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - CHIRA 2022. Science and Technology Publications, 2022.

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