Divine Command Ethics

Idziak, Janine Marie

doi:10.1002/9781444320152.ch68

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“…Divine command theory (DCT), a monistic, absolutist ethical theory, holds that the morality of an action is based on whether a divine entity commands or forbids that action (Idziak 1979;Quinn 2013). Similar to earlier work on dead ends (Kolobov, Mausam, and Weld 2012), we consider an ethical framework that requires a policy that selects actions that have a nil probability of transitioning to any forbidden state (Mouaddib, Jeanpierre, and Zilberstein 2015).…”

Section: Divine Command Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethically Compliant Sequential Decision Making

Svegliato

Nashed

Zilberstein

2021

AAAI

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Enabling autonomous systems to comply with an ethical theory is critical given their accelerating deployment in domains that impact society. While many ethical theories have been studied extensively in moral philosophy, they are still challenging to implement by developers who build autonomous systems. This paper proposes a novel approach for building ethically compliant autonomous systems that optimize completing a task while following an ethical framework. First, we introduce a definition of an ethically compliant autonomous system and its properties. Next, we offer a range of ethical frameworks for divine command theory, prima facie duties, and virtue ethics. Finally, we demonstrate the accuracy and usability of our approach in a set of autonomous driving simulations and a user study of planning and robotics experts.

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Section: Divine Command Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%