This paper pertains to research works aiming at linking ethics and automated reasoning in
autonomous machines. It focuses on a formal approach that is intended to be the basis of an …

The doctrine of double effect ($\mathcal {DDE} $) is a long-studied ethical principle that
governs when actions that have both positive and negative effects are to be allowed. The …

An important step in the development of value alignment (VA) systems in artificial
intelligence (AI) is understanding how VA can reflect valid ethical principles. We propose …

This paper examines the ethical pitfalls and challenges that non-ethicists, such as
researchers and programmers in the fields of computer science, artificial intelligence and …

Abstract Language-enabled robots with moral reasoning capabilities will inevitably face
situations in which they have to respond to human commands that might violate normative …

From AI to Robotics: Mobile, Social, and Sentient Robots is a journey into the world of agent-
based robotics and it covers a number of interesting topics, both in the theory and practice of …

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have fueled widespread academic
discourse on the ethics of AI within and across a diverse set of disciplines. One notable …

Vivimos en un momento en el que los ya de por sí cuestionados derechos sociales están
dejando de ser exigibles bajo el argumento de la crisis económica; en el que libertades …

This paper investigates the use of high-level action languages for designing ethical
autonomous agents. It proposes a novel and modular logic-based framework for …

While various traditions under the'virtue ethics' umbrella have been studied extensively and
advocated by ethicists, it has not been clear that there exists a version of virtue ethics …