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This paper aims to provide an overview of the ethical concerns in artificial intelligence (AI) and the framework that is needed to mitigate those risks, and to suggest a practical path to ensure the development and use of AI at the United…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Lambert Hogenhout

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and optimization hold substantial promise for improving the efficiency, reliability, and resilience of engineered systems. Due to the networked nature of many engineered systems, ethically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Rosemarie Santa Gonzalez , Ryan Piansky , Sue M Bae , Justin Biddle , Daniel Molzahn

Socialbots are software-driven user accounts on social platforms, acting autonomously (mimicking human behavior), with the aims to influence the opinions of other users or spread targeted misinformation for particular goals. As socialbots…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Thai Le , Long Tran-Thanh , Dongwon Lee

Human-Robot Interaction, in which a robot with some level of autonomy interacts with a human to achieve a specific goal has seen much recent progress. With the introduction of autonomous robots and the possibility of widespread use of those…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Maitry Ronakbhai Trivedi , Zahra Rezaei Khavas , Paul Robinette

Quantitative research of emotions in psychology and machine-learning methods for extracting emotion components from text messages open an avenue for physical science to explore the nature of stochastic processes in which emotions play a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Bosiljka Tadic , Vladimir Gligorijevic , Marcin Skowron , Milovan Suvakov

The use of dialogue systems as a medium for human-machine interaction is an increasingly prevalent paradigm. A growing number of dialogue systems use conversation strategies that are learned from large datasets. There are well documented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Peter Henderson , Koustuv Sinha , Nicolas Angelard-Gontier , Nan Rosemary Ke , Genevieve Fried , Ryan Lowe , Joelle Pineau

The proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has sparked an overwhelming number of AI ethics guidelines, boards and codes of conduct. These outputs primarily analyse competing theories, principles and values for AI development and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Anastasia Siapka

Robots, as AI with physical instantiation, inhabit our social and physical world, where their actions have both social and physical consequences, posing challenges for researchers when designing social robots. This study starts with a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Giulio Antonio Abbo , Tony Belpaeme , Micol Spitale

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) offers new opportunities to influence cooperative dynamics with greater applicability and control. In this paper, we examine the impact of third-party bots--agents that do not directly participate in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-24 Zhixue He , Chen Shen , Lei Shi , Jun Tanimoto

As artificial intelligence (AI) grows in popularity and importance-both as a domain within broader computing research and in society at large-increasing focus will need to be paid to the ethical governance of this emerging technology. The…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-01 James Weichert , Dayoung Kim , Qin Zhu , Junghwan Kim , Hoda Eldardiry

Intelligent conversational agents, or chatbots, can take on various identities and are increasingly engaging in more human-centered conversations with persuasive goals. However, little is known about how identities and inquiry strategies…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Weiyan Shi , Xuewei Wang , Yoo Jung Oh , Jingwen Zhang , Saurav Sahay , Zhou Yu

Physical embodiment is a required component for robots that are structurally coupled with their real-world environments. However, most socially interactive robots do not need to physically interact with their environments in order to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Eric Deng , Bilge Mutlu , Maja Mataric

Addressing collective issues in social development requires a high level of social cohesion, characterized by cooperation and close social connections. However, social cohesion is challenged by selfish, greedy individuals. With the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-12 Lei Shi , Zhixue He , Chen Shen , Jun Tanimoto

Although virtue ethics has repeatedly been proposed as a suitable framework for the development of artificial moral agents (AMAs), it has been proven difficult to approach from a computational perspective. In this work, we present the first…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Jakob Stenseke

A computational ethics framework is essential for AI and autonomous systems operating in complex, real-world environments. Existing approaches often lack the adaptability needed to integrate ethical principles into dynamic and ambiguous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Nijesh Upreti , Jessica Ciupa , Vaishak Belle

Taking the stance that artificially conscious agents should be given human-like rights, in this paper we attempt to define consciousness, aggregate existing universal human rights, analyze robotic laws with roots in both reality and science…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Markian Hromiak

Use of artificial intelligence is growing and expanding into applications that impact people's lives. People trust their technology without really understanding it or its limitations. There is the potential for harm and we are already…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Kyle Dent

Autonomous systems are being developed and deployed in situations that may require some degree of ethical decision-making ability. As a result, research in machine ethics has proliferated in recent years. This work has included using moral…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Travis LaCroix

Humanoid robots, as general-purpose physical agents, must integrate both intelligent control and adaptive morphology to operate effectively in diverse real-world environments. While recent research has focused primarily on optimizing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Guiliang Liu , Bo Yue , Yi Jin Kim , Kui Jia

Robots are becoming ever more autonomous. This expanding ability to take unsupervised decisions renders it imperative that mechanisms are in place to guarantee the safety of behaviours executed by the robot. Moreover, smart autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Dieter Vanderelst , Alan Winfield