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With ubiquitous exposure of AI systems today, we believe AI development requires crucial considerations to be deemed trustworthy. While the potential of AI systems is bountiful, though, is still unknown-as are their risks. In this work, we…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jamell Dacon

A growing suite of research illustrates the negative impact of social media bots in amplifying harmful information with widespread social implications. Social bot detection algorithms have been developed to help identify these bot agents…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Lynnette Hui Xian Ng , Ethan Pan , Michael Miller Yoder , Kathleen M. Carley

As robots become increasingly integrated into daily life, understanding responses to robot mistreatment carries important ethical and design implications. This mixed-methods study (N = 201) examined how anthropomorphic levels and moral…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Fan Yang , Renkai Ma , Yaxin Hu , Lingyao Li

In this paper, we introduce a probabilistic approach to risk assessment of robot systems by focusing on the impact of uncertainties. While various approaches to identifying systematic hazards (e.g., bugs, design flaws, etc.) can be found in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Woo-Jeong Baek , Tom P. Huck , Joschka Haas , Jonas Lewandrowski , Tamim Asfour , Torsten Kröger

Tactile interaction plays an essential role in human-to-human interaction. People gain comfort and support from tactile interactions with others and touch is an important predictor for trust. While touch has been explored as a communicative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Qiaoqiao Ren , Tony Belpaeme

Pure machine-based solutions usually struggle in the challenging classification tasks such as entity resolution (ER). To alleviate this problem, a recent trend is to involve the human in the resolution process, most notably the…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Zhaoqiang Chen , Qun Chen , Boyi Hou , Murtadha Ahmed , Zhanhuai Li

As robotic systems become more and more capable of assisting humans in their everyday lives, we must consider the opportunities for these artificial agents to make their human collaborators feel unsafe or to treat them unfairly. Robots can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Laura Londoño , Adrian Röfer , Tim Welschehold , Abhinav Valada

The paper begins by exploring the rationality of ethical trust as a foundational concept. This involves distinguishing between trust and trustworthiness and delving into scenarios where trust is both rational and moral. It lays the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Abbas Tariverdi

This paper presents REMind, an innovative educational robot-mediated role-play game designed to support anti-bullying bystander intervention among children. REMind invites players to observe a bullying scenario enacted by social robots,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Elaheh Sanoubari , Neil Fernandes , Keith Rebello , Alicia Pan , Andrew Houston , Kerstin Dautenhahn

As an envisaged future of transportation, self-driving cars are being discussed from various perspectives, including social, economical, engineering, computer science, design, and ethics. On the one hand, self-driving cars present new…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Tobias Holstein , Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic , Patrizio Pelliccione

We review practical challenges in building and deploying ethical AI at the scale of contemporary industrial and societal uses. Apart from the purely technical concerns that are the usual focus of academic research, the operational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Jiahao Chen , Victor Storchan , Eren Kurshan

In this paper we propose a framework for ethical decision making in the context of planning, with intended application to robotics. We put forward a compact but highly expressive language for ethical planning that combines linear temporal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Umberto Grandi , Emiliano Lorini , Timothy Parker , Rachid Alami

Current ethical debates on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care treat AI as a product of technology in three ways: First, by assessing risks and potential benefits of currently developed AI-enabled products with ethical…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Silke Schicktanz , Johannes Welsch , Mark Schweda , Andreas Hein , Jochem W. Rieger , Thomas Kirste

While several recent works have identified societal-scale and extinction-level risks to humanity arising from artificial intelligence, few have attempted an {\em exhaustive taxonomy} of such risks. Many exhaustive taxonomies are possible,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Andrew Critch , Stuart Russell

An independent ethical assessment of an artificial intelligence system is an impartial examination of the system's development, deployment, and use in alignment with ethical values. System-level qualitative frameworks that describe…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Amitoj Singh , Jingshu Chen , Lihao Zhang , Amin Rasekh , Ilana Golbin , Anand Rao

Background: Robot-assisted surgery has been widely adopted in recent years. However, compared to other health technologies operating in close proximity to patients in a vulnerable state, ethical issues of robot-assisted surgery have…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Joschka Haltaufderheide , Stefanie Pfisterer-Heise , Dawid Pieper , Robert Ranisch

Safety-critical robot systems need thorough testing to expose design flaws and software bugs which could endanger humans. Testing in simulation is becoming increasingly popular, as it can be applied early in the development process and does…

This paper introduces the Shepherd Test, a new conceptual test for assessing the moral and relational dimensions of superintelligent artificial agents. The test is inspired by human interactions with animals, where ethical considerations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Djallel Bouneffouf , Matthew Riemer , Kush Varshney

Practical uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the real world have demonstrated the importance of embedding moral choices into intelligent agents. They have also highlighted that defining top-down ethical constraints on AI according to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Elizaveta Tennant , Stephen Hailes , Mirco Musolesi

Moral AI has been studied in the fields of philosophy and artificial intelligence. Although most existing studies are only theoretical, recent developments in AI have made it increasingly necessary to implement AI with morality. On the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Masashi Takeshita , Rzepka Rafal , Kenji Araki