Responsibility Anticipation and Attribution in LTLf
Responsibility Anticipation and Attribution in LTLf
Giuseppe De Giacomo, Emiliano Lorini, Timothy Parker, Gianmarco Parretti
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main Track. Pages 47-55.
https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2025/6
Responsibility is one of the key notions in machine ethics and in the area of autonomous systems. It is a multi-faceted notion involving counterfactual reasoning about actions and strategies. In this paper, we study different variants of responsibility for LTLf outcomes based on strategic reasoning. We show a connection with notions in reactive synthesis, including the synthesis of winning, dominant, and best-effort strategies. This connection provides a strong computational grounding of responsibility, allowing us to characterize the worst-case computa- tional complexity and devise sound, complete, and optimal algorithms for anticipating and attributing responsibility.
Keywords:
Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: MAS: Agent theories and models
Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: MAS: Formal verification, validation and synthesis
AI Ethics, Trust, Fairness: ETF: Moral decision making
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: KRR: Reasoning about actions
