Why Teaching Ethics to AI Practitioners Is Important
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We argue that it is crucial to the future of AI that our students be trained in multiple complementary modes of ethical reasoning, so that they may make ethical design and implementation choices, ethical career decisions, and that their software will be programmed to take into account the complexities of acting ethically in the world.
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By and large very little to nothing has been written about the tangible implementation of ethical goals and values in AI.
“So far, some papers have been published on the subject of teaching ethics to data scientists (Garzcarek and Steuer 2019; Burton etal. 2017; Goldsmith and Burton 2017; Johnson 2017) but by and large very little to nothing has been written about the tangible implementation of ethical goals and values.”
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- Authors
- Goldsmith, J., & Burton, E.
- Affiliations
- University of Kentucky (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- Published
- 2017-02-12
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2159-5399 (ISSN-L)
- 2374-3468
- OpenAlex
- W2604315161
- Cited by
- 60
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 6
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- 12.95
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- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (publishedVersion)
- AAAI Publications (The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (1646887)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Ethics in Business and Education
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Flooding and Environmental Impact
- Keywords
- ethics education, AI practitioners, moral reasoning, ethical design, AI ethics
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