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Causal Framework of Artificial Autonomous Agent Responsibility

Franklin, M; Ashton, H; Awad, E; Lagnado, D; (2022) Causal Framework of Artificial Autonomous Agent Responsibility. In: Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. (pp. pp. 276-284). ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Green open access

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Abstract

Recent empirical work on people's attributions of responsibility toward artificial autonomous agents (such as Artificial Intelligence agents or robots) has delivered mixed findings. The conflicting results reflect differences in context, the roles of AI and human agents, and the domain of application. In this article, we outline a causal framework of responsibility attribution which integrates these findings. It outlines nine factors that influence responsibility attribution-causality, role, knowledge, objective foreseeability, capability, intent, desire, autonomy, and character. We propose a framework of responsibility that outlines the causal relationships between the nine factors and responsibility. To empirically test the framework we discuss some initial findings and outline an approach to using serious games for causal cognitive research on responsibility attribution. Specifically, we propose a game that uses a generative approach to creating different scenarios, in which participants can freely inspect different sources of information to make judgments about human and artificial autonomous agents.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Causal Framework of Artificial Autonomous Agent Responsibility
Event: AIES '22: 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society
Location: Oxford, UK
Dates: 19th-21st May 2021
ISBN-13: 978-1-4503-9247-1
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1145/3514094.3534140
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3514094.3534140
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
Keywords: Blame, Responsibility, Causal Cognition, Attribution
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Experimental Psychology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10195996
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