A proposed AI-enhanced serious game for cybersecurity ethics training

Deborah Richards; Paul Formosa; Malcolm Ryan; Michael Hitchens; Mitchell McEwan

A proposed AI-enhanced serious game for cybersecurity ethics training

Deborah Richards, Paul Formosa, Malcolm Ryan, Michael Hitchens, Mitchell McEwan

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review

Abstract

In the current information age, cybersecurity is essential for handling and protecting data in an ethical manner. Implementing appropriate cybersecurity policies and practices that will encourage people to exercise good ethical behaviour is therefore essential. Video games are a promising medium for allowing individuals to explore their behaviours in an ethically safe way. Our project will draw together a novel combination of theories and technologies from cybersecurity, moral psychology, artificially intelligent agent societies, knowledge-based systems, and serious game design to create and validate its ethical simulation. By using AI to implement societies of intelligent ethical agents in a serious video game, we will create a simulation environment with scope for deep and complex ethical engagement. Following the principles of moral psychology, this simulation will be used to design a sophisticated ethical training tool in a cybersecurity context.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australian Institute of Computer Ethics (AiCE 2020)
Subtitle of host publication	Computer Ethics in the New Normal
Publisher	Australasian Institute of Computer Ethics (AiCE)
Pages	1-9
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9780646831077
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	Conference of the Australasian Institute of Computer Ethics (9th : 2020) - Virtual, Australia Duration: 28 Nov 2020 → 10 Dec 2020

Conference

Conference	Conference of the Australasian Institute of Computer Ethics (9th : 2020)
Abbreviated title	AiCE 2020
Country/Territory	Australia
Period	28/11/20 → 10/12/20

Keywords

Intelligent ethical agents
Cyberethics training game
AORTA
Ripple Down Rules
Cybersecurity ethics
Serious games
AI ethics

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Richards, D , Formosa, P , Ryan, M , Hitchens, M & McEwan, M 2020, A proposed AI-enhanced serious game for cybersecurity ethics training. in Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australian Institute of Computer Ethics (AiCE 2020): Computer Ethics in the New Normal. Australasian Institute of Computer Ethics (AiCE), pp. 1-9, Conference of the Australasian Institute of Computer Ethics (9th : 2020), South Australia, Australia, 28/11/20.

A proposed AI-enhanced serious game for cybersecurity ethics training. / Richards, Deborah ; Formosa, Paul ; Ryan, Malcolm et al.
Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australian Institute of Computer Ethics (AiCE 2020): Computer Ethics in the New Normal. Australasian Institute of Computer Ethics (AiCE), 2020. p. 1-9.

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