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Higher-order responsibility

Higher-order responsibility
Higher-order responsibility
In ethics, individual responsibility is often defined through Frankfurt's principle of alternative possibilities. This definition is not adequate in a group decision-making setting because it often results in the lack of a responsible party or "responsibility gap''. One of the existing approaches to address this problem is to consider group responsibility. Another, recently proposed, approach is "higher-order'' responsibility. The paper considers the problem of determining whether higher-order responsibility up to a given degree is sufficient to close the responsibility gap and analyses the computational complexity of this problem.
AAAI Press
Jiang, Junli
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Naumov, Pavel
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Jiang, Junli
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Naumov, Pavel
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Jiang, Junli and Naumov, Pavel (2025) Higher-order responsibility. In Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26). vol. 40, AAAI Press. 8 pp . (In Press)

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In ethics, individual responsibility is often defined through Frankfurt's principle of alternative possibilities. This definition is not adequate in a group decision-making setting because it often results in the lack of a responsible party or "responsibility gap''. One of the existing approaches to address this problem is to consider group responsibility. Another, recently proposed, approach is "higher-order'' responsibility. The paper considers the problem of determining whether higher-order responsibility up to a given degree is sufficient to close the responsibility gap and analyses the computational complexity of this problem.

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Accepted/In Press date: 8 November 2025

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Local EPrints ID: 507484
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/507484
PURE UUID: 187df48e-b138-4a90-b370-9c1131507d14
ORCID for Pavel Naumov: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1687-045X

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Date deposited: 10 Dec 2025 17:48
Last modified: 11 Dec 2025 03:02

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Author: Junli Jiang
Author: Pavel Naumov ORCID iD

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