
The evolving relationship between humans and technology entails increasing concerns about the impact on ethical issues such as bias, unfairness, and lack of accountability. There is thus a need for consistent responses to multiple-user social dilemma that arise during interactions in sociotechnical systems, where combinations of humans and technical agents work together as ethical duos. The outcomes of these systems can be evaluated by the values that participating humans hold, which in turn influence the development of norms used to guide acceptable behaviour. However, when values are misjudged or norms conflict, systematic methodologies are needed to resolve the dilemmas that arise in satisfactory ways.

Adapting a macro-ethics perspective, in which ethics is addressed through the governance of sociotechnical systems with multiple agents rather than the actions of single agents, we propose that ethical principles can be mechanised in a way that considers a variety of contextual inputs to produce a satisfactory outcome. The application of these ethical principles would enable practitioners to think analytically and systematically about the multiple-user social dilemmas that occur in these systems to resolve them in satisfactory ways. In order to achieve this, we need to formulate new ways of (1) developing consistent responses to multiple-user social dilemmas, (2) categorizing ethical principles used in AI, and (3) systematically operationalizing ethical principles.

Macro Ethics for Governing Equitable Sociotechnical Systems

Ethics in Sociotechnical Systems

Ethics is inherently a multiagent concern. However, research on AI ethics today is dominated by work on individual agents: (1) how an autonomous robot or car may harm or (differentially) benefit people in hypothetical situations (the so-called trolley problems) and (2) how a machine learning algorithm may produce biased decisions or recommendations. The societal framework is largely omitted.

To develop new foundations for ethics in AI, we adopt a sociotechnical stance in which agents (as technical entities) help autonomous social entities or principals (people and organizations). This multiagent conception of a sociotechnical system (STS) captures how ethical concerns arise in the mutual interactions of multiple stakeholders. These foundations would enable us to realize ethical STSs that incorporate social and technical controls to respect stated ethical postures of the agents in the STSs. The envisioned foundations require new thinking, along two broad themes, on how to realize (1) an STS that reflects its stakeholders’ values and (2) individual agents that function effectively in such an STS.


New Foundations of Ethical Multiagent Systems

ELESSAR: Ethics in Norm-Aware Agents


**Session Chair:** <br><br> Badran Raddaoui

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Tutorial: Ethics in Sociotechnical Systems

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Macro Ethics for Governing Equitable Sociotechnical Systems

Ethics in Sociotechnical Systems

New Foundations of Ethical Multiagent Systems

ELESSAR: Ethics in Norm-Aware Agents

Ethics in Sociotechnical Systems

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