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AI ethics should not remain toothless! A call to bring back the teeth of ethics
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Ethics has powerful teeth, but these are barely being used in the ethics of AI today – it is no wonder the ethics of AI is then blamed for having no teeth. This article argues that ‘ethics’ in the current AI ethics field is largely ineffective, trapped in an ‘ethical principles’ approach and as such particularly prone to manipulation, especially by industry actors. Using ethics as a substitute for law risks its abuse and misuse. This significantly limits what ethics can achieve and is a great loss to the AI field and its impacts on individuals and society. This article discusses these risks and then highlights the teeth of ethics and the essential value they can – and should – bring to AI ethics now.
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“2 We can then observe a turn to ethics to ensure that AI is deployed in a manner that respects dearly held societal values and norms, and puts them at the heart of responsible technology development and deployment (Hagendorff, 2020; Jobin et al., 2019).”
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“2 We can then observe a turn to ethics to ensure that AI is deployed in a manner that respects dearly held societal values and norms, and puts them at the heart of responsible technology development and deployment (Hagendorff, 2020; Jobin et al., 2019).”
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“…point over the last couple of years: AI ethics is, by itself, deficient in regulating behaviours and practices for proper development and deployment of AI (Article 19, 2019; Greene et al., 2019; Hagendorff, 2020; Jobin et al., 2019; Kl € over and Fanta, 2019; Mittelstadt, 2019; Wagner, 2018).”
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“This then leads to ethics washing and its cousins: ethics shopping, ethics shirking, etc. (Floridi, 2019; Greene et al., 2019; Wagner, 2018).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Rességuier, A., & Rodrigues, R.
- Venue
- Big Data & Society
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2020-07
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 2053-9517 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3044676278
- Cited by
- 224
- References
- 7
- FWCI
- 33.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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