CEUR-WS.org/Vol-885 - Rights and Duties of Autonomous Agents 2012

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RDA2-2012
Rights and Duties of Autonomous Agents

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Rights and Duties of Autonomous Agents

In conjunction with the 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence - ECAI 2012

Montpellier, France, August 28, 2012.

Edited by

Olivier Boissier *
Grégory Bonnet
Catherine Tessier *

* ENS Mines Saint-Etienne - Henri Fayol Institute - LSTI, 158 Cours Fauriel, 42023 Saint-Etienne, France
** University of Caen Lower-Normandy - GREYC UMR CNRS 6072, Boulevard du Maréchal Juin, 14032 Caen, France
*** Onera - The French Aerospace Lab, 2 avenue Édouard-Belin, 31055 Toulouse, France

Table of Contents

Preface

Keynote

Functional rights and duties at the micro and macro social levels 6
Antonio Carlos da Costa Rocha

Session 1: Ethics and Legal Framework for Rights and Duties of Autonomous Agents

Ethics and authority sharing for autonomous armed robots 7-12
Florian Gros, Catherine Tessier, Thierry Pichevin
Integrating civil unmanned aircraft operating autonomously in non-segregated airspace: towards a dronoethics? 13-18
Thomas Dubot
The primacy of human autonomy: understanding agent rights through the human rights framework 19-24
Bart Kamphorst
Subjectivity of autonomous agents. Some philosophical and legal remarks 24-31
Elettra Stradella, Pericle Salvini, Alberto Pirni, Angela Di Carlo, Calogero Maria Oddo, Paolo Dario, Erica Palmerini

Session 2: Rights and Duties Conflict Management by Autonomous Agents

Principal and helper: notes on reflex responsibility in MAS 32-37
Clara Smith
Normative rational agents - A BDI approach 37-43
Mihnea Tufis, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia
What the heck is it doing? Better understanding Human-Machine conflicts through models 44-49
Sergio Pizziol, Catherine Tessier, Frédéric Dehais

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20-Aug-2012: submitted by Grégory Bonnet
20-Aug-2012: published on CEUR-WS.org