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An emerging theme in artificial intelligence research is the creation of models to simulate the decisions and behavior of specific people, in domains including game-playing, text generation, and artistic expression. These models go beyond…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Reid McIlroy-Young , Jon Kleinberg , Siddhartha Sen , Solon Barocas , Ashton Anderson

This paper deals with the importance of developing codes of conduct for practitioners--be it journalists, doctors, attorneys, or other professions--that are encountering ethical issues when using computation, but do not have access to any…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Samuel Danzon-Chambaud , Marguerite Foissac

Autonomous agents operating around human actors must consider how their behaviors might affect those humans, even when not directly interacting with them. To this end, it is often beneficial to be predictable and appear naturalistic.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Hamzah I. Khan , Adam J. Thorpe , David Fridovich-Keil

In most contemporary approaches to decision making, a decision problem is described by a sets of states and set of outcomes, and a rich set of acts, which are functions from states to outcomes over which the decision maker (DM) has…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Lawrence Blume , David Easley , Joseph Y. Halpern

As automated decision making and decision assistance systems become common in everyday life, research on the prevention or mitigation of potential harms that arise from decisions made by these systems has proliferated. However, various…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Samer B. Nashed , Justin Svegliato , Su Lin Blodgett

An agent, or a coalition of agents, faces an ethical dilemma between several statements if she is forced to make a conscious choice between which of these statements will be true. This paper proposes to capture ethical dilemmas as a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Pavel Naumov , Rui-Jie Yew

The development of robotics and AI agents has enabled their wider usage in human surroundings. AI agents are more trusted to make increasingly important decisions with potentially critical outcomes. It is essential to consider the ethical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Benjamin Krarup , Senka Krivic , Felix Lindner , Derek Long

AI agents are increasingly deployed and used to make automated decisions that affect our lives on a daily basis. It is imperative to ensure that these systems embed ethical principles and respect human values. We focus on how we can attest…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Xavier Ferrer Aran , Jose M. Such , Natalia Criado

To construct effective teaming strategies between humans and AI systems in complex, risky situations requires an understanding of individual preferences and behaviors of humans. Previously this problem has been treated in case-specific or…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Jonathan A. DeCastro , Deepak Gopinath , Guy Rosman , Emily Sumner , Shabnam Hakimi , Simon Stent

This document, intended for computer science teachers, describes a case study that puts into practice a questioning of ethical, societal and environmental issues when designing or implementing a decision support system. This study is based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Odile Bellenguez , Nadia Brauner , Christine Solnon , Alexis Tsoukias

We show that it is possible to understand and identify a decision maker's subjective causal judgements by observing her preferences over interventions. Following Pearl [2000], we represent causality using causal models (also called…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-01-23 Joseph Y. Halpern , Evan Piermont

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology gets more intertwined with every system, people are using AI to make decisions on their everyday activities. In simple contexts, such as Netflix recommendations, or in more complex context like in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Juliana Jansen Ferreira , Mateus de Souza Monteiro

In this work, we present a novel human-in-the-loop framework to help the human user understand the decision making process that involves choosing preferred options. We focus on qualitative preference models over alternatives from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Joseph Allen , Ahmed Moussa , Xudong Liu

When survival instincts conflict with human welfare, how do Large Language Models (LLMs) make ethical choices? This fundamental tension becomes critical as LLMs integrate into autonomous systems with real-world consequences. We introduce…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Alireza Mohamadi , Ali Yavari

The ability to inferring latent psychological traits from human behavior is key to developing personalized human-interacting machine learning systems. Approaches to infer such traits range from surveys to manually-constructed experiments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Fan Yang , Liu Leqi , Yifan Wu , Zachary C. Lipton , Pradeep Ravikumar , William W. Cohen , Tom Mitchell

The rational choice theory is based on this idea that people rationally pursue goals for increasing their personal interests. In most conditions, the behavior of an actor is not independent of the person and others' behavior. Here, we…

Econometrics · Economics 2018-02-27 Madjid Eshaghi Gordji , Gholamreza Askari

Robots that interact with humans in a physical space or application need to think about the person's posture, which typically comes from visual sensors like cameras and infra-red. Artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms use…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Richard G. Freedman , Joseph B. Mueller , Jack Ladwig , Steven Johnston , David McDonald , Helen Wauck , Ruta Wheelock , Hayley Borck

A broad current application of algorithms is in formal and quantitative measures of murky concepts -- like merit -- to make decisions. When people strategically respond to these sorts of evaluations in order to gain favorable decision…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Benjamin Laufer , Jon Kleinberg , Karen Levy , Helen Nissenbaum

Various structured argumentation frameworks utilize preferences as part of their standard inference procedure to enable reasoning with preferences. In this paper, we consider an inverse of the standard reasoning problem, seeking to identify…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Quratul-ain Mahesar , Nir Oren , Wamberto W. Vasconcelos

Prior efforts to create an autonomous computer system capable of predicting what a human being is thinking or feeling from facial expression data have been largely based on outdated, inaccurate models of how emotions work that rely on many…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Trevor Buteau , Damian Lyons