TY  - CONF
T1  - Ethical Concerns and Opportunities in Binding Intelligent Systems and Blockchain Technology
A1  - Calvaresi, Davide
A1  - Piguet, Jean-Gabriel
A1  - Calbimonte, Jean-Paul
A1  - Kampik, Timotheus
A1  - Najjar, Amro
A1  - Gadek, Guillame
A1  - Schumacher, Michael
TI  - Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Trustworthiness, The PAAMS Collection
Y1  - 2020
SP  - 5
EP  - 16
PB  - Springer
M2  - doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51999-5_1
KW  - blockchain
KW  - ethics
KW  - Multi-Agent Systems
KW  - transparency
KW  - Trust
N2  - Intelligent systems are becoming increasingly complex and pervade a broad range of application domains, including safety-critical systems such as e-health, finance, and energy management. Traditional approaches are no longer capable of addressing the demand for trust and transparency in these applications. Hence, the current decade is demanding intelligent systems to be autonomous, and in particular explainable, transparent, and trustworthy. To satisfy such requirements, and therefore to comply with the recent EU regulations in the matter (e.g., GDPR), intelligent systems (e.g., Multi-Agent Systems - MAS) and technologies enabling tamper-proof and distributed consensus (e.g., Blockchain Technology - BCT) are conveying into reconciling solutions. Recently, the empowerment of MAS with BCT (and the use of BCT themselves) has gained considerable momentum, raising challenges, and unveiling opportunities. However, several ethical concerns have yet to be faced.
This paper elaborates on the entanglement among ethical and technological challenges while proposing and discussing approaches that address these emerging research opportunities.
ER  -