Quantified Degrees of Group Responsibility (Extended Abstract)
This work addresses a theoretical problem in responsibility attribution for agent groups, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing notions.
The paper tackles the problem of quantifying group responsibility by proposing structural and functional degrees of responsibility to measure how groups can avoid undesirable states, but it does not provide concrete results or numbers.
This paper builds on an existing notion of group responsibility and proposes two ways to define the degree of group responsibility: structural and functional degrees of responsibility. These notions measure the potential responsibilities of (agent) groups for avoiding a state of affairs. According to these notions, a degree of responsibility for a state of affairs can be assigned to a group of agents if, and to the extent that, the group has the potential to preclude the state of affairs.