How might KEEL be used to provide ethical behavior to autonomous systems (robotic ethics)?
The topic of robotic ethics has been out there for a while. Autonomous systems can respond better than humans if they are appropriately controlled. This “requires” 1. humans determine what ethical behavior is, and 2. humans bare the ultimate responsibility for the behavior. This disallows allowing robots the ability to generate their own decisions of right and wrong. A key point is that robotic behavior must “easily” be audited. It cannot require the review of thousands of lines of computer code or complex mathematical formulas to determine why the robot did what it did. Humans are limited in describing their behavior, because the only way a human can explain why they “did what they did” is with a verbal or written language (ex. English), where every word is open to subjective interpretation. There is no effective way to describe the state of all the connections between all the neurons in the brain at the instant a decision is made. A robot, who’s every movement and action is driven by
