Formalisation and Evaluation of Alan Gewirth's Proof for the Principle of Generic Consistency in Isabelle/HOL

David Fuenmayor and Christoph Benzmüller

30 October 2018

Abstract

An ambitious ethical theory ---Alan Gewirth's "Principle of Generic Consistency"--- is encoded and analysed in Isabelle/HOL. Gewirth's theory has stirred much attention in philosophy and ethics and has been proposed as a potential means to bound the impact of artificial general intelligence.
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[2019-04-09] added proof for a stronger variant of the PGC and examplary inferences (revision 88182cb0a2f6)

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@article{GewirthPGCProof-AFP,
  author  = {David Fuenmayor and Christoph Benzmüller},
  title   = {Formalisation and Evaluation of Alan Gewirth's Proof for the Principle of Generic Consistency in Isabelle/HOL},
  journal = {Archive of Formal Proofs},
  month   = October,
  year    = 2018,
  note    = {\url{http://isa-afp.org/entries/GewirthPGCProof.html},
            Formal proof development},
  ISSN    = {2150-914x},
}
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