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.
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
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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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Junli Jiang
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Pavel Naumov
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