Understanding a Robot's Guiding Ethical Principles via Automatically Generated Explanations
Abstract
The continued development of robots has enabled their wider usage in human surroundings. Robots are more trusted to make increasingly important decisions with potentially critical outcomes. Therefore, it is essential to consider the ethical principles under which robots operate. In this paper we examine how contrastive and non-contrastive explanations can be used in understanding the ethics of robot action plans. We build upon an existing ethical framework to allow users to make suggestions about plans and receive automatically generated contrastive explanations. Results of a user study indicate that the generated explanations help humans to understand the ethical principles that underlie a robot's plan.
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@article{arxiv.2206.10038,
title = {Understanding a Robot's Guiding Ethical Principles via Automatically Generated Explanations},
author = {Benjamin Krarup and Felix Lindner and Senka Krivic and Derek Long},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.10038},
year = {2022}
}
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8 pages, 2 figures, 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering