Ethical Awareness in Paralinguistics: A Taxonomy of Applications

Batliner, Anton; Neumann, Michael; Burkhardt, Felix; Baird, Alice; Meyer, Sarina; Vu, Ngoc Thang; Schuller, Björn

doi:10.1080/10447318.2022.2140385

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“…Yet, we have to be aware that charisma can be abused for unethical goals; to enforce red lines against such a use will be both mandatory and challenging. Simple ethics washing has to be avoided (Wagner, 2018;Bietti, 2020;Rességuier and Rodrigues, 2020;Batliner et al, 2023); see Section 6. Furthermore, a charismatic AI could also recruit new staff potentially more successfully than a non-charismatic one.…”

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“…Bright charismatic speech in itself cannot be unethical or ethical-it always depends on the application we are envisioning and the ideology it can be used for. Thus, out of all the (ethical) cornerstones relevant for applications defined in Batliner et al (2023), most might be "secondary" for charisma, i. e., depend on the (type of) applications that use charismatic speech to pursue its goals. Yet, by providing charisma as a tool, we have to account for the possibility that this tool can be used for "dark goals" or, simply, that the outcome is not favorable.…”

Section: Ethics Of Computational Charismamentioning

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Computational charisma—A brick by brick blueprint for building charismatic artificial intelligence

Schuller,

Amiriparian,

Batliner

et al. 2023

Front. Comput. Sci.

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Charisma is considered as one's ability to attract and potentially influence others. Clearly, there can be considerable interest from an artificial intelligence's (AI) perspective to provide it with such skill. Beyond, a plethora of use cases opens up for computational measurement of human charisma, such as for tutoring humans in the acquisition of charisma, mediating human-to-human conversation, or identifying charismatic individuals in big social data. While charisma is a subject of research in its own right, a number of models exist that base it on various “pillars,” that is, dimensions, often following the idea that charisma is given if someone could and would help others. Examples of such pillars, therefore, include influence (could help) and affability (would help) in scientific studies, or power (could help), presence, and warmth (both would help) as a popular concept. Modeling high levels in these dimensions, i. e., high influence and high affability, or high power, presence, and warmth for charismatic AI of the future, e. g., for humanoid robots or virtual agents, seems accomplishable. Beyond, also automatic measurement appears quite feasible with the recent advances in the related fields of Affective Computing and Social Signal Processing. Here, we therefore present a brick by brick blueprint for building machines that can appear charismatic, but also analyse the charisma of others. We first approach the topic very broadly and discuss how the foundation of charisma is defined from a psychological perspective. Throughout the manuscript, the building blocks (bricks) then become more specific and provide concrete groundwork for capturing charisma through artificial intelligence (AI). Following the introduction of the concept of charisma, we switch to charisma in spoken language as an exemplary modality that is essential for human-human and human-computer conversations. The computational perspective then deals with the recognition and generation of charismatic behavior by AI. This includes an overview of the state of play in the field and the aforementioned blueprint. We then list exemplary use cases of computational charismatic skills. The building blocks of application domains and ethics conclude the article.

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Computational charisma—A brick by brick blueprint for building charismatic artificial intelligence

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Amiriparian,

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et al. 2023

Front. Comput. Sci.

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Recreational marijuana: Ethical positions and consumption status in explaining attitudes, perceived law ethicalness, and perceived corporate social responsibility

Souiden

2024

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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Drawing from the Ethics Position theory and the Theory of Planned Behavior, this study was conducted with a comprehensive four‐part goal. It seeks to explore the moderating influences of the consumption status and ethical positions in elucidating (i) individuals' attitude toward recreational marijuana consumption, (ii) individuals' perceived ethical stance regarding recreational marijuana legalization, (iii) individuals' CSR perception of firms operating within the marijuana industry often deemed as morally contentious, and (iv) the interrelationships among the aforementioned variables. Based on a sample of 411 Canadians and two grouping variables, ANOVA tests and a structural Equation Modeling were used to test the research hypotheses. The results show that individuals' attitudes toward the consumption of marijuana, perceived ethicalness of legalizing it, and perceived CSR significantly vary across the three groups of consumption status (i.e., non‐consumer, occasional, and regular) and the four groups of ethical positions (i.e., absolutism, exceptionism, situationism, and subjectivism). The SEM results, however, show that, except for a few cases, there were no notable variations in the model's path coefficients among the identified groups. This study has intriguing implications for academicians, practitioners, politicians, managers, social welfare activists, and other stakeholders.

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