Artificial virtuous agents in a multiagent tragedy of the commons

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02769v1
• Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 09:12:41 GMT
• Title: Artificial virtuous agents in a multiagent tragedy of the commons
• Authors: Jakob Stenseke
• Abstract summary: We present the first technical implementation of artificial virtuous agents (AVAs) in moral simulations. Results show how the AVAs learn to tackle cooperation problems while exhibiting core features of their theoretical counterpart.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Although virtue ethics has repeatedly been proposed as a suitable framework for the development of artificial moral agents (AMAs), it has been proven difficult to approach from a computational perspective. In this work, we present the first technical implementation of artificial virtuous agents (AVAs) in moral simulations. First, we review previous conceptual and technical work in artificial virtue ethics and describe a functionalistic path to AVAs based on dispositional virtues, bottom-up learning, and top-down eudaimonic reward. We then provide the details of a technical implementation in a moral simulation based on a tragedy of the commons scenario. The experimental results show how the AVAs learn to tackle cooperation problems while exhibiting core features of their theoretical counterpart, including moral character, dispositional virtues, learning from experience, and the pursuit of eudaimonia. Ultimately, we argue that virtue ethics provides a compelling path toward morally excellent machines and that our work provides an important starting point for such endeavors.

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