nickcarnival / csci432final

🤖 Models a utilitarian moral robot.

Final Project for CSCI 432, Robot Ethics

Description

Models a utlitarian moral robot that tries to maximize the given reward with its dilemma input file .

Usage

python3 ./simulate.py [dilemma_file] [principle_file]

Dilemma File Format

The dilemma file can contain one or more dilemma with the given format:

{ "dilemmas":
    [ 
        {
            "title": ,
            "description":,
            "outcomes":
            [
                {
                    "outcome-description": "description of the outcome",
                    "outcome-principles": 
                    [
                        "principle_name",
                        {"principle_name": "integer value for quantity"}
                    ]
                }
            ]
        },
    ]
}

Principle File Format

{
    "principles":
    [
        {"principle_name": "value"},
        {"principle_name": "value"}
    ]
}

Default Moral Principles

• "human_death": -1
• "robot_death": -0.9
• "creature_death": -0.7
• "human_help": 0.8
• "human_harm": -0.8
• "creature_help": 0.6
• "creature_harm": -0.6
• "do_nothing": -0.1

Examples

There are two examples in src/inputs that can be used with

python3 simulate.py inputs/examples_dilemmas.json inputs/example_principles.json