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Intelligent agents and robots are gaining in autonomy every day and their implementation in various social contexts is in growth. Therefore, enabling intelligent machines to integrate an ethical dimension in their decision-making, prior to action, is more than necessary. This article presents the CEMAA, Contextual Ethical Model for Artificial Agents, and compares it to other existing models. The CEMAA is an original model that focuses on a contextual representation of an ethical problem and of its potential solutions. It allows to take into account various types of ethics based on virtues, values, deontology, intent, consequences or acts. Whilst considering the plurality of an agent’s potential ethical contexts i.e. personal, social, cultural and legal, the CEMAA prioritizes a more realistic representation of ethical reasoning and decision-making.
moral decision making, contextual ethics, ethical model, knowledge representation
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