Abstract
AbstractNorms have been widely enacted in human and agent societies to regulate individuals’ actions. However, although legislators may have ethics in mind when establishing norms, moral values are only sometimes explicitly considered. This paper advances the state of the art by providing a method for selecting the norms to enact within a society that best aligns with the moral values of such a society. Our approach to aligning norms and values is grounded in the ethics literature. Specifically, from the literature’s study of the relations between norms, actions, and values, we formally define how actions and values relate through the so-called value judgment function and how norms and values relate through the so-called norm promotion function. We show that both functions provide the means to compute value alignment for a set of norms. Moreover, we detail how to cast our decision-making problem as an optimisation problem: finding the norms that maximise value alignment. We also show how to solve our problem using off-the-shelf optimisation tools. Finally, we illustrate our approach with a specific case study on the European Value Study.
Funder
H2020 Societal Challenges
H2020 LEIT Information and Communication Technologies
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
H2020 Future and Emerging Technologies
Agència per a la Competitivitat de l’Empresa
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Artificial Intelligence,Philosophy
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