Anthropogenic carbon emissions have the potential to trigger changes in climate and
ecosystems that would be catastrophic for the well-being of humans and other species …

Technological advances are enabling roles for machines that present novel ethical
challenges. The study of'AI ethics' has emerged to confront these challenges, and connects …

This chapter describes how context motivates moral behavior by way of social norms. Norms
are guides to action. They constrain an individual's options in a given context to act in ways …

Social and moral norms are a fabric for holding human societies together and helping them
to function. As such they will also become a means of evaluating the performance of future …

We present a broad notion of norms that can accommodate many of its interdisciplinary
variants and offer a framework to ask questions about norm change. Rather than examining …

Norms are indispensable for human communities, and so they will be for robot-human
communities. We analyze some of the requirements for a robot to represent norms and …

Rules are often stated in a negated manner (“no trespassing”) rather than in an affirmative
manner (“stay in your lane”). Here, we build on classic research on negation processing …

6. Conclusion To summarize, this report presents an overview of the accomplishments in
developing and integrating norm-aware behavior trees for human-robot collaboration. The …