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Value alignment is the task of creating autonomous systems whose values align with those of humans. Past work has shown that stories are a potentially rich source of information on human values; however, past work has been limited to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Md Sultan Al Nahian , Spencer Frazier , Brent Harrison , Mark Riedl

This paper grounds ethics in evolutionary biology, viewing moral norms as adaptive mechanisms that render cooperation fitness-viable under selection pressure. Current alignment approaches add ethics post hoc, treating it as an external…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Dylan Waldner

This whitepaper offers normative and practical guidance for developers of artificial intelligence (AI) systems to achieve "Trustworthy AI". In it, we present overall ethical requirements and six ethical principles with value-specific…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Nicholas Kluge Corrêa , Julia Maria Mönig

Value learning is a crucial aspect of safe and ethical AI. This is primarily pursued by methods inferring human values from behaviour. However, humans care about much more than we are able to demonstrate through our actions. Consequently,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Paul de Font-Reaulx

AI Alignment research seeks to align human and AI goals to ensure independent actions by a machine are always ethical. This paper argues empathy is necessary for this task, despite being often neglected in favor of more deductive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Devin Gonier , Adrian Adduci , Cassidy LoCascio

Ethicists, policy-makers, and the general public have questioned whether artificial entities such as robots warrant rights or other forms of moral consideration. There is little synthesis of the research on this topic so far. We identify…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Jamie Harris , Jacy Reese Anthis

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has an increasing impact on all areas of people's livelihoods. A detailed look at existing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary metrics frameworks could bring new insights and enable practitioners to navigate…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Marek Havrda , Bogdana Rakova

As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms society, developers and policymakers struggle to anticipate which applications will face public moral resistance. We propose that these judgments are not idiosyncratic but systematic and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Kimmo Eriksson , Simon Karlsson , Irina Vartanova , Pontus Strimling

AI is transforming the existing technology landscape at a rapid phase enabling data-informed decision making and autonomous decision making. Unlike any other technology, because of the decision-making ability of AI, ethics and governance…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Mahendra Samarawickrama

The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 marked the beginning of a new era in AI, the availability of generative AI tools for everyone to use. ChatGPT and other similar chatbots boast a wide range of capabilities from answering student…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yanchen Wang , Lisa Singh

Humans with an average level of social cognition can infer the beliefs of others based solely on the nonverbal communication signals (e.g. gaze, gesture, pose and contextual information) exhibited during social interactions. This social…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Jiafei Duan , Samson Yu , Nicholas Tan , Li Yi , Cheston Tan

This paper addresses the question of how to align AI systems with human values and situates it within a wider body of thought regarding technology and value. Far from existing in a vacuum, there has long been an interest in the ability of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Iason Gabriel , Vafa Ghazavi

Knowing the reflection of game theory and ethics, we develop a mathematical representation to bridge the gap between the concepts in moral philosophy (e.g., Kantian and Utilitarian) and AI ethics industry technology standard (e.g., IEEE…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Yijia Wang , Yan Wan , Zhijian Wang

Ensuring ethical behavior in Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems amidst their increasing ubiquity and influence is a major concern the world over. The use of formal methods in AI ethics is a possible crucial approach for specifying and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Priya T. V. , Shrisha Rao

This research develops advanced methodologies for Large Language Models (LLMs) to better manage linguistic behaviors related to emotions and ethics. We introduce DIKE, an adversarial framework that enhances the LLMs' ability to internalize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Edward Y. Chang

Fairness is one of the most commonly identified ethical principles in existing AI guidelines, and the development of fair AI-enabled systems is required by new and emerging AI regulation. But most approaches to addressing the fairness of…

We argue that enabling human-AI dialogue, purposed to support joint reasoning (i.e., 'inquiry'), is important for ensuring that AI decision making is aligned with human values and preferences. In particular, we point to logic-based models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Elfia Bezou-Vrakatseli , Oana Cocarascu , Sanjay Modgil

Critical decision-making in socially consequential spaces is increasingly involving AI systems at varying capacities. Yet, despite the ubiquity of autonomous systems, most approaches to handling autonomous moral decision-making resort to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Aisha Aijaz , Rahul Goel , Arnav Batra , Raghava Mutharaju

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

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly integrated into various domains, ensuring that they align with human values becomes critical. This paper introduces a novel formalism to quantify the alignment between AI systems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Fazl Barez , Philip Torr