Fundamentals of a new Markup Language: MOML

Abstract

Our society is currently witnessing an increase in the use of autonomous systems. These systems are becoming ever more part of our daily lives. Even in closed or semi-open world scenarios, they come into situations where they must make moral decisions. There currently is no standardised way of defining the morality settings of autonomous agents. Therefore, the goal of this thesis is to propose a new morality markup language (MOML) encoding moral attitudes in a human- and machine-understandable form.