Understanding a Robot's Guiding Ethical Principles via Automatically Generated Explanations
This addresses the need for transparency in robot ethics for users, but it is incremental as it builds upon an existing ethical framework.
The paper tackled the problem of understanding the ethical principles guiding robot decisions by using automatically generated contrastive and non-contrastive explanations, with results from a user study showing that these explanations help humans comprehend the underlying ethics of robot action plans.
The continued development of robots has enabled their wider usage in human surroundings. Robots are more trusted to make increasingly important decisions with potentially critical outcomes. Therefore, it is essential to consider the ethical principles under which robots operate. In this paper we examine how contrastive and non-contrastive explanations can be used in understanding the ethics of robot action plans. We build upon an existing ethical framework to allow users to make suggestions about plans and receive automatically generated contrastive explanations. Results of a user study indicate that the generated explanations help humans to understand the ethical principles that underlie a robot's plan.