Logic Programming and Machine Ethics

Autonomous Intelligent Systems are designed to reduce the need for human intervention in our daily life. However, the full benefit of these new systems will be attained only if they are aligned with society's values and ethical principles. Adopting ethical approaches to building such systems has been attracting a lot of attention in the recent years. The global concern about the ethical behavior of this kind of technologies has manifested in many initiatives at different levels. As examples, we mention: the IEEE initiative for ethically aligned design of autonomous intelligent systems ('Ethics in Action'