Bertram Malle (Cognitive, Linguistic, & Psych Sciences, Brown).

Title: A Path to Trustworthy Artificial Agents: The Core Requirement of Norms

Abstract: Much talk about trustworthy AI and robots centers on accuracy, transparency, and fairness. I introduce a broader framework in which human trust is grounded in both performance dimensions (e.g., capability, reliability) and moral dimensions. The moral dimensions include considerations of transparency, benevolence, and ethical integrity, of which fairness is just one aspect. I show that people conceptualize trust—toward both humans and machines—in this multi-dimensional way, and I propose that the moral dimensions are a requirement for norm competence. I clarify what such competence involves theoretically, provide empirical evidence of its properties, and sketch one path of implementing it computationally.

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