A Voting-Based System for Ethical Decision Making
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Noothigattu, Ritesh
Gaikwad, Snehalkumar "Neil" S.
Awad, Edmond
Dsouza, Sohan
Rahwan, Iyad
Ravikumar, Pradeep
Procaccia, Ariel D.
Date Issued
2018
Citation
Noothigattu, Ritesh, Gaikwad, Snehalkumar "Neil" S., Awad, Edmond, Dsouza, Sohan, Rahwan, Iyad et al. 2018. "A Voting-Based System for Ethical Decision Making."
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Abstract
Copyright © 2018, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved. We present a general approach to automating ethical decisions, drawing on machine learning and computational social choice. In a nutshell, we propose to learn a model of societal preferences, and, when faced with a specific ethical dilemma at runtime, efficiently aggregate those preferences to identify a desirable choice. We provide a concrete algorithm that instantiates our approach; some of its crucial steps are informed by a new theory of swap-dominance efficient voting rules. Finally, we implement and evaluate a system for ethical decision making in the autonomous vehicle domain, using preference data collected from 1.3 million people through the Moral Machine website.
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