Ethical Trust and Social Moral Norms Simulation: A Bio-inspired Agent-Based Modelling Approach
Authors:
- Hock Chuan LimHock Chuan Lim
- Rob StockerRSRob Stocker
- Henry LarkinHLHenry Larkin
- 1 December 2008
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Vol. 2, 245-251
Abstract
The understanding of the micro-macro link is an urgent need in the study of social systems. The complex adaptive nature of social systems adds to the challenges of understanding social interactions and system feedback and presents substantial scope and potential for extending the frontiers of computer-based research tools such as simulations and agent-based technologies. In this project, we seek to understand key research questions concerning the interplay of ethical trust at the individual level and the development of collective social moral norms as representative sample of the bigger micro-macro link of social systems. We outline our computational model of ethical trust (CMET) informed by research findings from trust, machine ethics and neural science. Guided by the CMET architecture, we discuss key implementation ideas for the simulations of ethical trust and social moral norms.Keywords
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