Dear all,

We will have our next LIRa session on Thursday, February 18th. Our speaker is Marija Slavkovik. You can find the details of the talk below. We will use our recurring zoom link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/92907704256?pwd=anY3WkFmQVhLZGhjT2JXMlhjQVl1dz09 (Meeting ID: 929 0770 4256, Passcode: 036024).

Speaker: Marija Slavkovik

Date and Time: Thursday, February 18th 2021, 16:30-18:00, Amsterdam time.

Venue: online.

Title: Conflicts in machine ethics.

Abstract. Machine ethics is concerned with the problem of automating moral reasoning. Specifically,  given a set of options in a context and some information on which moral values or obligations are to be enforced, how to compute what is to be done by a machine? The obvious challenge of machine ethics is often considered to be: what should a machine never do? But that is the wrong question. A less obvious one is: who should decide what a machine should never do? And for people who understand collective decision-making: how? Moral values and moral obligations tend to be ambiguously specified affairs. Furthermore, people have different views when it comes to morality. All this spells: conflicts. Conflicting views must be resolved as part of automating moral reasoning. Drawing on past and ongoing work I discuss three approaches to resolving conflicts when they are represented as logic inconsistencies: argumentation, social choice and normative conflict resolution.

Hope to see you there!

The LIRa team