Towards Ethical Machines Via Logic Programming

However the overall aim is not only important for equipping machines with capabilities of moral reasoning, but also for helping us to better understand morality through creating and testing computational models of ethical machines that follow a set of ideal ethical principles. Since the beginning of this century there were several attempts for implementing ethical decision making into intelligent autonomous agents using different approaches. But, no fully descriptive and widely accepted model of moral judgment and decision-making exists. In this work we propose a hybrid logic-based approach for modeling ethical machines, particularly ethical chatbots. As a matter of fact the potential of logic programming (LP) to model moral machines was envisioned by Pereira and Saptawijaya [15].