It appears they are going with some kind of modal logic, which also does not appear to deal with incomplete information. I also suspect “moral” will be conflated with “utilitarian” or “utilitarian plus a diff”. But then there is this bit in the press release:
Bringsjord’s first step in designing ethically logical robots is translating moral theory into the language of logic and mathematics. A robot, or any machine, can only do tasks that can be expressed mathematically. With help from Rensselaer professor Mei Si, an expert in the computational modeling of emotions, the aim is to capture in “Vulcan” logic such emotions as vengefulness.
...which makes it sound like the utility function/moral framework will be even more ad hoc.
It appears they are going with some kind of modal logic, which also does not appear to deal with incomplete information. I also suspect “moral” will be conflated with “utilitarian” or “utilitarian plus a diff”. But then there is this bit in the press release:
...which makes it sound like the utility function/moral framework will be even more ad hoc.
Unfortunately, in the future we will be allowed to have only the emotions Mei Si was an expert of :/