On Three Ethical Aspects Involved in Using Agent-Based Social Simulation for Policy-Making

Autor: Pablo Noriega, Lucia Alexandra Popartan, Antonio Perello-Moragues, Manel Poch
Přispěvatelé: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Noriega, Pablo [0000-0003-1317-2541], Noriega, Pablo
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Digital.CSIC: Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Springer Proceedings in Complexity ISBN: 9783030615024
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Popis: [EN]The use of agent-based social simulation for policy-making involves ethical considerations of three different kinds: (i) in the agent-based policy model itself: the choice of values that are to be imbued in the simulated agents and in the policies; (ii) in the functionality of the system that is designed to support a policy-making process; and (iii) in the use of the system to design, negotiate, deploy and monitor an actual policy. In this paper we propose a value-driven framework to elucidate the corresponding ethical concerns of these kinds and then outline some guidelines to address them. We use the water policy domain to motivate and illustrate the proposal.
The first and third author are supported with the industrial doctoral grants 2016DI043 and 2016DI042, respectively, which are provided by the Catalan Secretariat for Universities and Research (AGAUR). The first and second authors also received support from the CIMBVAL project (Spanish government, project # TIN2017-89758-R).
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