2026
Higher-Order Responsibility
AAAI 2026technical
In ethics, individual responsibility is often defined through Frankfurt
5 accepted papers
In ethics, individual responsibility is often defined through Frankfurt
In many real-world situations, there is often not enough information to know that a certain strategy will succeed in achieving the goal, but there is a good reason to believe that it will. The paper introduces the term "doxastic" for such strategies. The main technical contribution is a sound and c…
The article proposes a new approach to reasoning about knowledge and strategies in multiagent systems. It emphasizes data, not agents, as the source of strategic knowledge. The approach brings together Armstrong's functional dependency expression from database theory, a data-informed knowledge modal…
The paper proposes a data-centred approach to reasoning about the interplay between trust and beliefs. At its core, is the modality "under the assumption that one dataset is trustworthy, another dataset informs a belief in a statement". The main technical result is a sound and complete logical syste…
The paper studies preferences of agents about other agents in a social network. It proposes a logical system that captures the properties of such preferences, called "likes". The system can express nested constructions "agent likes humbled people", "agent likes those who like humbled people", etc. T…