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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