Ethical Decision-Making in Multi-Agent Systems

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Jessica Woodgate

Published: 2025, Last Modified: 07 Oct 2025AAMAS 2025EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Developing socially beneficial multi-agent systems (MAS) necessitates addressing the capacity of agents to make decisions of an ethical nature. Ethics is inherently multi-agent, involving one's concern for another. To make ethical decisions, agents should consider the needs of different stakeholders. Principles from normative ethics, the philosophical study of morality, provide practical guidance to determine right from wrong. My work implements normative ethics principles in artificial agents to foster ethical decision-making.