Serramia, M., Rodriguez-Soto, M., Boddington, Paula and Ansotegui, C. (2023) Encoding Ethics to Compute Value‑Aligned Norms. Mind and Machines, 33. pp. 761-790.

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Abstract

Norms have been widely enacted in human and agent societies to regulate individuals’ actions. However, although legislators may have ethics in mind when establishing norms, moral values are only sometimes explicitly considered. This paper
advances the state of the art by providing a method for selecting the norms to
enact within a society that best aligns with the moral values of such a society. Our
approach to aligning norms and values is grounded in the ethics literature. Specifcally, from the literature’s study of the relations between norms, actions, and values, we formally defne how actions and values relate through the so-called value
judgment function and how norms and values relate through the so-called norm promotion function. We show that both functions provide the means to compute value
alignment for a set of norms. Moreover, we detail how to cast our decision-making
problem as an optimisation problem: fnding the norms that maximise value alignment. We also show how to solve our problem using of-the-shelf optimisation tools.
Finally, we illustrate our approach with a specifc case study on the European Value
Study.

Item Type:	Article
Identifier:	10.1007/s11023-023-09649-7
Subjects:	Medicine and health > Clinical medicine > Dementia
Depositing User:	Marc Forster
Date Deposited:	25 Sep 2024 12:20
Last Modified:	04 Nov 2024 11:19
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/12722

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