Logic Programming and Machine Ethics

Transparency is a key requirement for ethical machines. Verified ethical behavior is not enough to establish justified trust in autonomous intelligent agents: it needs to be supported by the ability to explain decisions. Logic Programming (LP) has a great potential for developing such perspective ethical systems, as in fact logic rules are easily comprehensible by humans. Furthermore, LP is able to model causality, which is crucial for ethical decision making.Comment: In Proceedings ICLP 2020, arXiv:2009.09158. Invited paper for the ICLP2020 Panel on "Machine Ethics". arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1909.0825

A Logic-based Multi-agent System for Ethical Monitoring and Evaluation of Dialogues

In Proceedings ICLP 2021, arXiv:2109.0791

An Approach Towards Ethical Chatbots in Customer Service

Chatbot is an artificial intelligent software which can simulate a conversation with a user in natural language via auditory or textual methods. Businesses are rapidly moving towards the need for chatbots. However chatbots raise many ethical concerns. To ensure that they behave ethically, their behavior should be guided by the codes of ethics and conduct of their company

Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Bias, Ethical AI, Explainability and the Role of Logic and Logic Programming (BEWARE 2022)

The BEWARE-22 workshop, held on December 2, 2022 in Udine, Italy, focused on emerging ethical aspects of artificial intelligence, with a particular emphasis on bias, risk, explainability, and the role of logic and logic programming. The invited speaker, Francesca Alessandra Lisi, gave a talk on “Ethics & Gender for a Responsible Research and Innovation in AI,” exploring the intersection of ethics and gender in the context of responsible research and innovation in artificial intelligence. The workshop program consisted of three sessions: “Logic for AI”, “Technical Approaches to XAI”, and “Conceptual Views,” which this short preface aims to describe. In total, 13 papers were accepted for the workshop, with 5 accepted as long papers and 8 as short papers. The proceedings include 12 papers out of the 13 from the workshop, plus an invited abstract, and will hopefully serve as a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners working on the ethical aspects of AI, inspiring further discussions and collaborations in this critical area of research

Logic-based Machine Learning for Transparent Ethical Agents

Autonomous intelligent agents are increasingly engaging in human communities. Thus, they must be expected to follow social and ethical norms of the community in which they are deployed in. In this work we present an approach for developing such ethical agents which are able to develop ethical decision making and judgment capabilities by learning from interactions with the users. Our approach is a logic-based approach and the resulting ethical agents are transparent by design

Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Bias, Ethical AI, Explainability and the role of Logic and Logic Programming

The second edition of the BEWARE workshop (https://sites.google.com/view/ beware2023), co-located with the AIxIA 2023 conference, was held in Rome on November 6, 2023. The workshop focused on the emerging ethical aspects of AI, particularly addressing Bias, Risk, Explainability, and the role of Logic and Logic Programming. The event brought together a diverse group of researchers and practitioners to discuss and explore solutions for ethical decision-making in AI. This year, the workshop saw significant participation, with 9 accepted high-quality submis- sions, 5 as long papers and 4 as short papers (out of a total of 11 submitted papers), rigorously peer-reviewed by our Program Committee

Proceedings of the International Conference on Logic Programming 2021 Workshops co-located with the 37th International Conference on Logic Programming {(ICLP} 2021), Porto, Portugal (virtual), September 20th-21st, 2021

Five workshops co-located with ICLP 2021 joined efforts in the production of these proceedings. Overall, 30 papers were submitted for peer-review to the workshops. Out of these, 24 papers were accepted for this volume, 21 as regular papers and 3 as short papers