Software Agents as Legal Persons

Andrade, Francisco; Neves, José; Nováis, Paulo; Machado, José

doi:10.1007/1-4020-8139-1_14

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“…The debate is not entirely new (Donaldson 1982;May 1983), nor devoid of controversial points (Ewin 1991). Its revival is due to the increasing pervasiveness and autonomy of artificial agents and of hybrid multiagent systems (Wooldridge 2009), both in every day contexts and in business environments (Andrade et al 2004(Andrade et al , 2007Hildebrandt 2008Hildebrandt , 2011Wallach and Allen 2009;Verbeek 2011;Kroes and Verbeek forthcoming). In (Floridi and Sanders 2004), I argued that standard perspectives on ''mindless morality''-ethical issues involving artificial, synthetic or hybrid agents, from companies to webbots-run the risk of remaining unduly constrained by an anthropocentric conception of agency.…”

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Distributed Morality in an Information Society

Floridi

2012

Sci Eng Ethics

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The phenomenon of distributed knowledge is well-known in epistemic logic. In this paper, a similar phenomenon in ethics, somewhat neglected so far, is investigated, namely distributed morality. The article explains the nature of distributed morality, as a feature of moral agency, and explores the implications of its occurrence in advanced information societies. In the course of the analysis, the concept of infraethics is introduced, in order to refer to the ensemble of moral enablers, which, although morally neutral per se, can significantly facilitate or hinder both positive and negative moral behaviours.

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Distributed Morality in an Information Society

Floridi

2012

Sci Eng Ethics

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“…Having the above stated in mind, it is essential to consider that all intervenients and processes in VE also should be seen as secure, trustable, reliable and credible [13,14,15,16].…”

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“…In order to increase the use of agents in VE, besides the analysis and research of legal solutions in the commercial arena, it is essential to assure that agents will meet requirements of trust and credibility, insuring a transparent and secure way for their commercial acting, now capable of generating legal relations, established by the inner states of an agent and its capability to determine, acquire and express beliefs, desires and intentions, constraining through direct or indirect ways, trust, reputation and credibility [16].…”

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Legal Security and Credibility in Agent Based Virtual Enterprises

Andrade

Neves

Nováis

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IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing

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Recent trends in the field of Artificial Intelligence, brought along new ways of formalizing and expressing wills and declarations. Its application to Virtual Enterprises requires an analysis of the interactions among agents, frameworks and users, as well as technical and legal analysis, in order to discover the rules to be applied, to solve a particular problem under a prospective scenario. Credibility, trust and security issues must be taken under consideration, especially concerning authenticity, confidentiality, integrity and nonrepudiation. In order to increase the use of agents in Virtual Enterprises

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Modeling Medical Ethics through Intelligent Agents

Machado

Miranda

Abelha

et al. 2009

Software Services for E-Business and E-Society

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The amount of research using health information has increased dramatically over the last past years. Indeed, a significative number of healthcare institutions have extensive Electronic Health Records (EHR), collected over several years for clinical and teaching purposes, but are uncertain as to the proper circumstances in which to use them to improve the delivery of care to the ones in need. Research Ethics Boards in Portugal and elsewhere in the world are grappling with these issues, but lack clear guidance regarding their role in the creation of and access to EHRs. However, we feel we have an effective way to handle Medical Ethics if we look to the problem under a structured and more rational way. Indeed, we felt that physicians were not aware of the relevance of the subject in their pre-clinical years, but their interest increase when they were exposed to patients. On the other hand, once EHRs are stored in machines, we also felt that we had to find a way to ensure that the behavior of machines toward human users, and perhaps other machines as well, is ethically acceptable. Therefore, in this article we discuss the importance of machine ethics and the need for machines that represent ethical principles explicitly. It is also shown how a machine may abstract an ethical principle from a logical representation of ethical judgments and use that principle to guide its own behavior.

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Software Agents as Legal Persons

Cited by 3 publications

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Distributed Morality in an Information Society

Distributed Morality in an Information Society

Legal Security and Credibility in Agent Based Virtual Enterprises

Modeling Medical Ethics through Intelligent Agents

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