An Ethical Framework for Message Prioritization in Disaster Response
Grace Diehl, Julie A. Adams · 2021
Disaster response robots show promise, but risk adding significant load to already overburdened communication networks. Previous work addressed this problem by prioritizing certain messages; however, the ethical implications of message prioritization in disaster response have not been studied comprehensively. This manuscript proposes an ethical framework for evaluating message prioritization mechanisms. Additionally, a taxonomy of the existing message prioritization approaches is introduced, highlighting the ethical principles that most require further study for each approach.