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A Causal Analysis of Harm
Sander Beckers, Hana Chockler, Joseph Y. Halpern
As autonomous systems rapidly become ubiquitous, there is a growing need for a legal and regulatory framework to address when and how such a system harms someone. There have been s…
Quantifying Harm
Sander Beckers, Hana Chockler, Joseph Y. Halpern
In earlier work we defined a qualitative notion of harm: either harm is caused, or it is not. For practical applications, we often need to quantify harm; for example, we may want t…
From Outcome-Based to Language-Based Preferences
Valerio Capraro, Joseph Y. Halpern, Matjaz Perc
We review the literature on models that try to explain human behavior in social interactions described by normal-form games with monetary payoffs. We start by covering social and m…
The Benefits of Coarse Preferences
Joseph Y. Halpern, Yuval Heller, Eyal Winter
We study the strategic advantages of coarsening one's utility by clustering nearby payoffs together (i.e., classifying them the same way). Our solution concept, coarse-utility equi…