Serious Games for Ethical Preference Elicitation

Jayati Deshmukh (University of Southampton), Zijie Liang (University of Southampton), Vahid Yazdanpanah (University of Southampton), Sebastian Stein (University of Southampton), Savapali D. Ramchurn (University of Southampton)

Abstract

Autonomous agents acting on behalf of humans must act according to those humans' ethical preferences. However, ethical preferences are latent and abstract, and thus it is challenging to elicit them. To address this, we present a serious game that helps elicit ethical preferences in a more dynamic and engaging way than traditional methods, such as questionnaires or simple dilemmas.