ETHICAL BEHAVIOUR OF AUTONOMOUS NON-MILITARY CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS

Damien Trentesaux (1) , Raphaël Rault

1 UVHC - Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis

Autonomous non-military cyber-physical systems are widely studied in research but there are still few applications in industry. One of the reasons relies in the fact that there is still no proof of guarantee for these systems regarding their safety and their ability to behave in a nonhazardous way, mainly because of the induced complexity caused by their learning abilities coupled with the high ability to interact and cooperate of their composing mechatronics elements. More, cyber-physical systems are intended to be merged into socio-technical systems and interact with humans. As a consequence, the study of their ethical behavior translates currently a major stake. Meanwhile, it is clear that this stake is still not address by the scientific community while 1) sci-fi literature and movies have addressed this since a long time 2) some autonomous road vehicles have already injured people, and 3) EU parliament has launched a procedure dealing with the establishment of civil laws for autonomous learning robots. This paper intends then to open the debate on this topic and suggests to extend dependability studies to integrate ethicality as a new dimension. New emerging research fields are identified and an illustration in the autonomous train transportation is presented.

Mots clés: ethical behavior; complex system; cyber-physical systems; autonomous vehicles; artificial intelligence; train transportation; RAMS; RAME

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Automatique / Robotique

Damien Trentesaux, Raphaël Rault. ETHICAL BEHAVIOUR OF AUTONOMOUS NON-MILITARY CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS. XIX International Conference on Complex systems: control and modeling problems, Sep 2017, Samara, Russia. pp.26-34. ⟨hal-01592501⟩