Supervision : Jean-Gabriel GANASCIA

Co-supervision : Gauvain BOURGNE

Merging Action Models to Non-Monotonic and Deontic Logics in Order to Simulate Ethical Reasonings

The computational ethics field (cf. [Tolmeijer and al., 2020]) is dedicated to model ethical concepts and ethical reasoning with AI tools. This research is quite new, since the actual need of ethical supervisors, which control artificial agents’ behaviors, appeared very lately to be crucial due to the recent successes of AI techniques, in particular of supervised machine learning and more specifically deep learning, and to their development in everyday applications. Let us insist on the key notion of “ethical supervisor” we want to design here: these are pieces of software that would govern any artificial agents, e.g. autonomous vehicles, in order to ensure that they don’t infringe moral rules. This doesn’t mean that the agents that would result be, properly speaking, ethical, which would be ridiculously anthropocentric, but that such an ethical supervisor makes the agents' behaviors to conform to moral rules of conducts.

2021-2023 Publications

• 2023
  • Y. Munro, C. Sarmiento, I. Bloch, G. Bourgne, M.‑J. Lesot : “Dynamic Argumentation and Action Languages: Towards Explanations”, The Fourth Workshop on Explainable Logic-Based Knowledge Representation (XLoKR 2023), Rhodes, Greece (2023)
  • Y. Munro, C. Sarmiento, I. Bloch, G. Bourgne, M.‑J. Lesot : “Temporalité et causalité en argumentation abstraite”, Actes JIAF-JFPDA 2023, Strasbourg, France (2023)
• 2022
  • C. Sarmiento, G. Bourgne, K. Inoue, J.‑G. Ganascia : “Action Languages Based Actual Causality in Decision Making Contexts”, International Workshop on AI compliance mechanism (WAICOM 2022) @ 35^th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2022), Saarbrucken, Germany (2022)
  • C. Sarmiento, G. Bourgne, K. Inoue, J.‑G. Ganascia : “Action Languages Based Actual Causality in Decision Making Contexts”, The 24^th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, vol. 13753, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Valence, Spain, pp. 243-259, (Springer International Publishing), (ISBN: 978-3-031-21202-4) (2022)
  • C. Sarmiento, G. Bourgne, D. Cavalli, K. Inoue, J.‑G. Ganascia : “ACTION LANGUAGES BASED ACTUAL CAUSALITY IN ETHICAL DECISION MAKING CONTEXTS”, (2022)
• 2021
  • G. Bourgne, C. Sarmiento, J.‑G. Ganascia : “ACE modular framework for computational ethics : dealing with multiple actions, concurrency and omission”, International Workshop on Computational Machine Ethics, Online event, France (2021)