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304In AI We Trust: Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, and ReliabilityScience and Engineering Ethics 26 (5): 2749-2767. 2020.One of the main difficulties in assessing artificial intelligence (AI) is the tendency for people to anthropomorphise it. This becomes particularly problematic when we attach human moral activities to AI. For example, the European Commission’s High-level Expert Group on AI (HLEG) have adopted the position that we should establish a relationship of trust with AI and should cultivate trustworthy AI (HLEG AI Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI, 2019, p. 35). Trust is one of the most important and …Read more
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206Artificial intelligence ethics guidelines for developers and users: clarifying their content and normative implicationsJournal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 19 (1): 61-86. 2021.Purpose The purpose of this paper is clearly illustrate this convergence and the prescriptive recommendations that such documents entail. There is a significant amount of research into the ethical consequences of artificial intelligence. This is reflected by many outputs across academia, policy and the media. Many of these outputs aim to provide guidance to particular stakeholder groups. It has recently been shown that there is a large degree of convergence in terms of the principles upon which …Read more
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196Stop re-inventing the wheel: or how ELSA and RRI can alignJournal of Responsible Innovation (x). 2023.Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects (ELSA) originated in the 4thEuropean Research Framework Programme (1994) andresponsible research and innovation (RRI) from the EC researchagenda in 2010. ELSA has received renewed attention inEuropean funding schemes and research. This raises the questionof how these two approaches to social responsibility relate toone another and if there is the possibility to align. There is aneed to evaluate the relationship/overlap between ELSA and RRIbecau…Read more
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193A subdiscipline has emerged around AI ethics, which is comprised of a wide array of individuals: computer scientists, ethicists, cognitive scientists, roboticists, legal professionals, economists, sociologists, gender, and race theorists. This has led to a very interesting branch of research, addressing issues surrounding the development and use of AI. This chapter will give a very brief snapshot of some of the most pertinent ethical concerns. Many of the issues in the Big Data Ethics chapter in…Read more
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74Organisational responses to the ethical issues of artificial intelligenceAI and Society 37 (1): 23-37. 2022.The ethics of artificial intelligence is a widely discussed topic. There are numerous initiatives that aim to develop the principles and guidance to ensure that the development, deployment and use of AI are ethically acceptable. What is generally unclear is how organisations that make use of AI understand and address these ethical issues in practice. While there is an abundance of conceptual work on AI ethics, empirical insights are rare and often anecdotal. This paper fills the gap in our curre…Read more
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48The Future of Transportation: Ethical, Legal, Social and Economic Impacts of Self-driving Vehicles in the Year 2025Science and Engineering Ethics 26 (3): 1185-1208. 2020.Self-driving vehicles offer great potential to improve efficiency on roads, reduce traffic accidents, increase productivity, and minimise our environmental impact in the process. However, they have also seen resistance from different groups claiming that they are unsafe, pose a risk of being hacked, will threaten jobs, and increase environmental pollution from increased driving as a result of their convenience. In order to reap the benefits of SDVs, while avoiding some of the many pitfalls, it i…Read more
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42An AI ethics ‘David and Goliath’: value conflicts between large tech companies and their employeesAI and Society 1-16. forthcoming.Artificial intelligence ethics requires a united approach from policymakers, AI companies, and individuals, in the development, deployment, and use of these technologies. However, sometimes discussions can become fragmented because of the different levels of governance or because of different values, stakeholders, and actors involved. Recently, these conflicts became very visible, with such examples as the dismissal of AI ethics researcher Dr. Timnit Gebru from Google and the resignation of whis…Read more
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35Research and Practice of AI Ethics: A Case Study Approach Juxtaposing Academic Discourse with Organisational RealityScience and Engineering Ethics 27 (2): 1-29. 2021.This study investigates the ethical use of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies (BD + AI)—using an empirical approach. The paper categorises the current literature and presents a multi-case study of 'on-the-ground' ethical issues that uses qualitative tools to analyse findings from ten targeted case-studies from a range of domains. The analysis coalesces identified singular ethical issues, (from the literature), into clusters to offer a comparison with the proposed classificati…Read more
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33The social and ethical impacts of artificial intelligence in agriculture: mapping the agricultural AI literatureAI and Society 38 (6): 2473-2485. 2023.This paper will examine the social and ethical impacts of using artificial intelligence (AI) in the agricultural sector. It will identify what are some of the most prevalent challenges and impacts identified in the literature, how this correlates with those discussed in the domain of AI ethics, and are being implemented into AI ethics guidelines. This will be achieved by examining published articles and conference proceedings that focus on societal or ethical impacts of AI in the agri-food secto…Read more
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27Agricultural Big Data Analytics and the Ethics of PowerJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 33 (1): 49-69. 2020.Agricultural Big Data analytics (ABDA) is being proposed to ensure better farming practices, decision-making, and a sustainable future for humankind. However, the use and adoption of these technologies may bring about potentially undesirable consequences, such as exercises of power. This paper will analyse Brey’s five distinctions of power relationships (manipulative, seductive, leadership, coercive, and forceful power) and apply them to the use agricultural Big Data. It will be shown that ABDA …Read more
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20Big Data EthicsEncyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. 2021.Big Data ethics3 informs about how data can be used ethically and gives principles and values to decide how to use it. The values and norms proposed within this area of research aim to influence laws and guide the use of data. The field of Big Data ethics is expanding with new digital technologies and applications, such as the creation of smart cities, robots, or biometric technology, where data fuels their development and innovation. Thus, this field relates to other ethics’ fields – bioethics,…Read more
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9Human Value, Environmental Ethics and Sustainability: The Precautionary Ecosystem Health PrincipleRowman & Littlefield International. 2016.Should we care about the environment because it is economically valuable or because nature has intrinsic value? This book gives a clear overview of some of the main theoretical problems within environmental ethics and offers definitive solutions and alternatives.
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7In defence of digital contact-tracing: human rights, South Korea and Covid-19International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications 1 (1). 2020.Purpose The media has even been very critical of some East Asian countries’ use of digital contact-tracing to control Covid-19. For example, South Korea has been criticised for its use of privacy-infringing digital contact-tracing. However, whether their type of digital contact-tracing was unnecessarily harmful to the human rights of Korean citizens is open for debate. The purpose of this paper is to examine this criticism to see if Korea’s digital contact-tracing is ethically justifiable. Desig…Read more
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2Big Data EthicsIn Deborah C. Poff & Alex C. Michalos (eds.), Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics, Springer Verlag. pp. 203-208. 2021.
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Wageningen University and ResearchDigital Ethics Researcher
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Value Theory |
Technology Ethics |
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence |
Computer Ethics |
Robot Ethics |
Philosophy of Technology, Misc |
Technology Ethics, Misc |