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Ethical Concerns and Opportunities in Binding Intelligent Systems and Blockchain Technology

Authors : Davide Calvaresi, Jean-Gabriel Piguet, Jean-Paul Calbimonte, Timotheus Kampik, Amro Najjar, Guillaume Gadek, Michael Schumacher

Published in: Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Trust-worthiness. The PAAMS Collection

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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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.

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Title: Ethical Concerns and Opportunities in Binding Intelligent Systems and Blockchain Technology
Authors: Davide Calvaresi
Jean-Gabriel Piguet
Jean-Paul Calbimonte
Timotheus Kampik
Amro Najjar
Guillaume Gadek
Michael Schumacher
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Trust-worthiness. The PAAMS Collection
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-51998-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-51999-5

Copyright Year: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51999-5_1

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