Ethics by reasoning in socio-technical and cognitive systems

Socio-technical systems bring together the social and physical worlds where people, things and services interact altogether. With the development of Artificial Intelligence, these systems are increasingly incorporating automated cognitive processes, which are delegated to autonomous services and things acting on behalf of humans. The ever enlarging scope of activity of these systems raises many challenging issues, among which Ethics appears as crucial and is strongly discussed. In this talk, we present the current landscape of approaches and challenges related to the development of socio-technical and cognitive systems with ethical behaviors. We focus on models and technics to program such systems based on collective autonomous agents that are able to reason at the individual, social and collective levels on the ethical dimensions of their behaviors. This work is part of the ETHICAA project funded by the French National Agency for Research (ANR). In this project, Philosophers, Economists, Robotic and AI scholars develop models and a methodological framework in which to lay out the development of Ethics by Reasoning in Multi-Agent in Systems.