Ethical Decision Making in Autonomous Vehicles: The AV Ethics Project.

The ethics of autonomous vehicles (AV) has received a great amount of attention in recent years, specifically in regard to their decisional policies in accident situations in which human harm is a likely consequence. Starting from the assumption that human harm is unavoidable, many authors have deve...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Publicado en:Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 26; no. 6; pp. 3285 - 3313
Autores principales: Evans, Katherine, de Moura, Nelson, Chauvier, Stéphane, Chatila, Raja, Dogan, Ebru
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature 2020
Materias:
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=147734336&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: hlh
    uiTerm: 147734336
    longDbName: Humanities International Complete
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        13533452
        GNI
      jtl: Science & Engineering Ethics
      issn: 13533452
      maglogo: N
    pubinfo:
      dt: 2020
      vid: 26
      iid: 6
      pid: 237
      pub: Springer Nature
    artinfo:
      ui:
        147734336
        10.1007/s11948-020-00272-8
      ppf: 3285
      ppct: 28
      formats:
        fmt:
          – @attributes:
              type: T
          – @attributes:
              type: P
              size: 1.3MB
      tig:
        atl: Ethical Decision Making in Autonomous Vehicles: The AV Ethics Project.
      aug:
        au:
          Evans, Katherine
          de Moura, Nelson
          Chauvier, Stéphane
          Chatila, Raja
          Dogan, Ebru
        affil:
          Institut VEDECOM, 21 bis Allée des Marroniers, 78000, Versailles, France
          Sciences, Normes, Démocratie, Sorbonne Université, 1 Rue Victor Cousin, 75005, Paris, France
          ISIR, Sorbonne Université, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France
      su:
        Decision making
        Ethics
        Road users
        Social acceptance
        Moral reasoning
        Driverless cars
        Autonomous vehicles
      sug:
        subj:
          Decision making
          Ethics
          Road users
          Social acceptance
          Moral reasoning
          Driverless cars
          Autonomous vehicles
      keyword: Machine ethics
      ab: The ethics of autonomous vehicles (AV) has received a great amount of attention in recent years, specifically in regard to their decisional policies in accident situations in which human harm is a likely consequence. Starting from the assumption that human harm is unavoidable, many authors have developed differing accounts of what morality requires in these situations. In this article, a strategy for AV decision-making is proposed, the Ethical Valence Theory, which paints AV decision-making as a type of claim mitigation: different road users hold different moral claims on the vehicle's behavior, and the vehicle must mitigate these claims as it makes decisions about its environment. Using the context of autonomous vehicles, the harm produced by an action and the uncertainties connected to it are quantified and accounted for through deliberation, resulting in an ethical implementation coherent with reality. The goal of this approach is not to define how moral theory requires vehicles to behave, but rather to provide a computational approach that is flexible enough to accommodate a number of 'moral positions' concerning what morality demands and what road users may expect, offering an evaluation tool for the social acceptability of an autonomous vehicle's ethical decision making.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype: Article
      src: R
    language: English
    refInfo:
    copyright:
      @attributes:
        flag: Y
      custom: Science & Engineering Ethics is a copyright of Springer, 2020. All Rights Reserved.
      item: Science & Engineering Ethics
      holder: Springer Nature
      dt:
        @attributes:
          year: 2020
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N