Algorithm for an automatic moral judgement of human behavior by using web-mining

• Project/Area Number: 24700253
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Cognitive science
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: RZEPKA Rafal 北海道大学, 情報科学研究科, 助教 (80396316)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2013)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
• Keywords: 知識獲得 / マシンエシックス / 人工汎用知能 / 自然言語処理 / コモンセンス / オーストラリア / ポーランド / ニュージーランド

Research Abstract

The idea proposed in this study was an ethical reasoning algorithm of human behavior. The behavior of the system, is determined by a collection possible "ethical common sense" from Internet resources rather than by the instructions of the programmer as in conventional systems. Many Internet users have accumulated their "folk wisdom" which is the base for the proposed system. Feedback to the system is minimized by utilizing "automatic emotional evaluation of an act's results" algorithm and "automatic social evaluation of an act's results" to extract and the resulting reaction patterns of human behaviors. This helps the system to determine whether the given act is regarded "good" or "bad" by humans (no limit to the topic in the input). For deeper situation understanding five senses simulation and instincts lexicon was added and methods for calculating vectors of Bentham's Felicific Calculus were proposed. Precision achieved was 70-75% on average for each recognition step.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] ELIZA Fifty Years Later - The Possibility of an Automatic Therapist Using Bottom-up and Top-down Approaches to Artificial Morality (2014)
  • Author(s): Rafal Rzepka and Kenji Araki
  • Journal Title: Machine Medical Ethics" in Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation(Springer)
  • URL: http://www.springer.com/engineering/robotics/book/978-3-319-08107-6
• [Journal Article] ELIZA Fifty Years Later - The Possibility of an Automatic Therapist Using Bottom-up and Top-down Approaches to Artificial Morality (2014)
  • Author(s): Rafal Rzepka and Kenji Araki
  • Journal Title: "Machine Medical Ethics" in Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation, Springer Volume: TBA
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Aristotelian Approach and Shallow Search Settings for Fast Ethical Judgment (2013)
  • Author(s): Radoslaw Komuda, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
  • Journal Title: International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research Volume: Volume 4 , Issue 1 Pages: 14-21
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Pros and Cons of Borrowing Morality from P2P Civilization (2014)
  • Author(s): Rafal Rzepka
  • Organizer: Invited Talk at AAAI Spring Symposium on Implementing Selves with Safe Motivational Systems & Self-Improvement
  • URL: http://www.digitalwisdominstitute.org/SS14Self/Presentations.aspx
  • Place of Presentation: Stanford, USA
  • Year and Date: 2014-03-26
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Experience of Crowds as a Guarantee for Safe Artificial Self (2014)
  • Author(s): Rafal Rzepka and Kenji Araki
  • Organizer: in proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on Implementing Selves with Safe Motivational Systems & Self-Improvement
  • URL: http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/SSS/SSS14/paper/viewPaper/7730
  • Place of Presentation: Stanford, USA(pp. 40-44)
  • Year and Date: 2014-03-25
• [Presentation] Pros and Cons of Borrowing Morality from P2P Civilization (2014)
  • Author(s): Rafal Rzepka
  • Organizer: AAAI Spring Symposium on Implementing Selves with Safe Motivational Systems & Self-Improvement
  • Place of Presentation: Stanford University (USA)
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Experience of Crowds as a Guarantee for Safe Artificial Self (2014)
  • Author(s): Rafal Rzepka and Kenji Araki
  • Organizer: AAAI Spring Symposium on Implementing Selves with Safe Motivational Systems & Self-Improvement
  • Place of Presentation: Stanford University (USA)
• [Presentation] Possible Usage of Sentiment Analysis for Calculating Vectors of Felicific Calculus (2013)
  • Author(s): Rafal Rzepka and Kenji Araki
  • Organizer: In proceedings of IEEE 13th International Conference on Data Mining Workshop"SENTIRE"
  • Place of Presentation: Dallas, USA(pp. 967 - 970)
  • Year and Date: 2013-12-07
• [Presentation] Society as a Life Teacher - Automatic Recognition of Instincts Underneath Human Actions by Using Blog Corpus (2013)
  • Author(s): Rafal Rzepka and Kenji Araki
  • Organizer: in proceedings of SocInfo 2013
  • Place of Presentation: Kyoto, Japan(pp. 370-376)
  • Year and Date: 2013-11-25
• [Presentation] Using Empathy of the Crowd for Simulating Mirror Neurons Behavior (2013)
  • Author(s): Rafal Rzepka and Kenji Araki
  • Organizer: Invited presentation at the 4th International Workshop on Empathic Computing IWEC' 13
  • URL: http://www.ai.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/IWEC2013/
  • Place of Presentation: Beijing, China
  • Year and Date: 2013-08-04
  • Invited
• [Presentation] A- dur : Action Duration Calculation System (2013)
  • Author(s): Marek Krawczyk, Yuki Urabe, Rafal Rzepka and Kenji Araki
  • Organizer: 人工知能学会第2種研究会ことば工学研究会
  • URL: http://ultimavi.arc.net.my/banana/Workshop/Programs/krawczyk_abst.html
  • Place of Presentation: Sapporo, Japan(SIG-LSE-B301-7, pp. 47-54)
  • Year and Date: 2013-07-28
• [Presentation] Web- Based Five Senses Input Simulation - Ten Years Later (2013)
  • Author(s): Rafal Rzepka and Kenji Araki
  • Organizer: 人工知能学会第2種研究会ことば工学研究会
  • URL: http://ultimavi.arc.net.my/banana/Workshop/Programs/rafal_abst2.html
  • Place of Presentation: Sapporo, Japan( SIG-LSE-B301-5, pp. 25-33)
  • Year and Date: 2013-07-27
• [Presentation] Possible Usage of Sentiment Analysis for Calculating Vectors of Felific Calculus (2013)
  • Author(s): Rafal Rzepka and Kenji Araki
  • Organizer: IEEE 13th International Conference on Data Mining Workshop “SENTIRE”
  • Place of Presentation: Sheraton Dallas (USA)
• [Presentation] Society as a Life Teacher - Automatic Recognition of Instincts Underneath Human Actions by Using Blog Corpus (2013)
  • Author(s): Rafal Rzepka and Kenji Araki
  • Organizer: SocInfo 2013
  • Place of Presentation: 京都大学（京都市）
• [Presentation] Using Empathy of the Crowd for Simulating Mirror Neurons Behavior (2013)
  • Author(s): Rafal Rzepka, Marek Krawczyk and Kenji Araki
  • Organizer: 4th International Workshop on Empathic Computing IWEC'13
  • Place of Presentation: Beijing University (China)
• [Presentation] Web-Based Five Senses Input Simulation - Ten Years Later (2013)
  • Author(s): Rafal Rzepka and Kenji Araki
  • Organizer: 人工知能学会第2種研究会 ことば工学研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 北海道大学（札幌市）
• [Presentation] A-dur: Action Duration Calculation System (2013)
  • Author(s): Marek Krawczyk, Yuki Urabe, Rafal Rzepka and Kenji Araki
  • Organizer: 人工知能学会第2種研究会 ことば工学研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 北海道大学（札幌市）
• [Presentation] Toward a Moral Judgement Algorithm Based on the Experiences of a Crowd (2013)
  • Author(s): Rafal Rzepka
  • Organizer: Invited Talk at the Otago University, New Zealand
  • Place of Presentation: Otago University (New Zealand)
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Language of Emotions for Simulating Moral Imagination (2012)
  • Author(s): Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
  • Organizer: Proceedings of The 6th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition
  • Place of Presentation: National Taiwan University (Taiwan)
• [Presentation] Augmenting Interaction: implementing effective interaction models for AR objects (2012)
  • Author(s): Svetoslav Dankov, Rafal Rzepka and Kenji Araki
  • Organizer: International Organized Session "Alan Turing Year Special Session on AI Research That Can Change The World
  • Place of Presentation: 教育会館（山口市）
• [Presentation] Augmenting Interaction: Collecting Common Sense Through AR Objects (2012)
  • Author(s): Svetoslav Dankov, Rafal Rzepka and Kenji Araki
  • Organizer: Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialogue Agents Symposium
  • Place of Presentation: Birmingham University (UK)
• [Presentation] RhetorEthics, or – on implementing an Aristotelian approach to Machine Ethics (2012)
  • Author(s): Radoslaw Komuda, Rafal Rzepka and Kenji Araki
  • Organizer: Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialogue Agents Symposium
  • Place of Presentation: Birmingham University (UK)
• [Presentation] A Domain Analytic Method in Modular-designed Reflexive Agent (2012)
  • Author(s): Motoki Yatsu, Rafal Rzepka and Kenji Araki
  • Organizer: Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialogue Agents Symposium
  • Place of Presentation: Birmingham University (UK)
• [Presentation] Automatic Reverse Engineering of Human Behavior Based on Text for Knowledge Acquisition (2012)
  • Author(s): Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki
  • Organizer: Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
  • Place of Presentation: 北海道大学（札幌市）