When is it acceptable to break the rules? Knowledge representation of moral judgements based on empirical data

Author:

Awad Edmond,Levine Sydney,Loreggia Andrea,Mattei Nicholas,Rahwan Iyad,Rossi Francesca,Talamadupula Kartik,Tenenbaum Joshua,Kleiman-Weiner Max

Abstract

AbstractConstraining the actions of AI systems is one promising way to ensure that these systems behave in a way that is morally acceptable to humans. But constraints alone come with drawbacks as in many AI systems, they are not flexible. If these constraints are too rigid, they can preclude actions that are actually acceptable in certain, contextual situations. Humans, on the other hand, can often decide when a simple and seemingly inflexible rule should actually be overridden based on the context. In this paper, we empirically investigate the way humans make these contextual moral judgements, with the goal of building AI systems that understand when to follow and when to override constraints. We propose a novel and general preference-based graphical model that captures a modification of standard dual process theories of moral judgment. We then detail the design, implementation, and results of a study of human participants who judge whether it is acceptable to break a well-established rule: no cutting in line. We then develop an instance of our model and compare its performance to that of standard machine learning approaches on the task of predicting the behavior of human participants in the study, showing that our preference-based approach more accurately captures the judgments of human decision-makers. It also provides a flexible method to model the relationship between variables for moral decision-making tasks that can be generalized to other settings.

Funder

Università degli Studi di Brescia

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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