From Ethics Washing to Ethics Bashing: A View on Tech Ethics from Within Moral Philosophy

Bietti, Elettra

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3914119

Cited by 80 publications

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“…Encouraging Reflexivity. One potential goal of the statement might have been simply to encourage researchers to reflect on the societal consequences of their work, or engage in moral inquiry, which Bietti [8] argues is intrinsically valuable. More formally, reflexivity as a political rationality found in the literature on social responsibility is "focused on making scientists aware of their own values and motivations, as well as making them reflect on the possible outcomes of their scientific inquiries" [22].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unpacking the Expressed Consequences of AI Research in Broader Impact Statements

Nanayakkara

Hullman

Diakopoulos

2021

Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society

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The computer science research community and the broader public have become increasingly aware of negative consequences of algorithmic systems. In response, the top-tier Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference for machine learning and artificial intelligence research required that authors include a statement of broader impact to reflect on potential positive and negative consequences of their work. We present the results of a qualitative thematic analysis of a sample of statements written for the 2020 conference. The themes we identify broadly fall into categories related to how consequences are expressed (e.g., valence, specificity, uncertainty), areas of impacts expressed (e.g., bias, the environment, labor, privacy), and researchers' recommendations for mitigating negative consequences in the future. In light of our results, we offer perspectives on how the broader impact statement can be implemented in future iterations to better align with potential goals. CCS CONCEPTS• Computing methodologies → Artificial intelligence; • Social and professional topics → Codes of ethics.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unpacking the Expressed Consequences of AI Research in Broader Impact Statements

Nanayakkara

Hullman

Diakopoulos

2021

Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society

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“…This research uses the statute approach [14] that is comprehensive, all-inclusive, and systematic toward the Law on Health to analyze the ratio legis [15] of the norm's application to prevent the spread of infectious diseases as formulated in Article 56 of the Law on Health. It uses the philosophical approach [16] to analyze the ethical, legal, and justice aspects of that article. Then, the writer gives critical notes on its legal normalization and implementation with the hope to provide holistic, radical, and profound justice to the legal interests of individuals and society during the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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confidence: 99%

Philosophy, Law, and Ethics of Handling COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia

Wardiono

Dimyati

Nugroho

et al. 2021

Open Access Maced J Med Sci

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BACKGROUND: During the pandemic, COVID-19 spread very quickly between people. Thus, the patients’ rights to obtain treatment do not have to decrease the protection of the public. The perspectives of ethics, law, and justice prioritize the rights of the public as stated in the principle “Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto” (Public safety is the highest law as regulated in the law). METHODS: This research employs the statute approach with comprehensive, all-inclusive, and systematic manners to the ratio legis of the Health Law. It also uses the philosophy approach. RESULTS: In Indonesia, the regulatory handling of the COVID-19 pandemic is based on the Law on Infectious Disease Outbreak. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the quick spread of this disease causes many fatalities. Thus, individual rights of patients must be ruled out to prioritize public rights. CONCLUSION: The legal perspective upholds the “Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto” principle, namely, public safety is the highest law was the core of philosophy, law and ethics handling covid 19 pandemic.

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“…They could also entail privacy-preserving measures, which serve to adequately protect and secure (personal) data used to develop and maintain a given AI system's functionality; requirements for sufficiently representative data sets (Flournoy et al 2020 ) to ensure both adequate functioning of an AI system in a real-world environment as well as to tackle bias introduced through inadequate data sets; or, describe testing and validation protocols and procedures that would support the fulfillment of the principles in question by a given AI system. The latter may cover adversarial testing by dedicated red teams (Brundage et al 2020 ) As discussed earlier, a prominent critique of AI Ethics Principles at large is that they are susceptible to 'ethics washing', including concerns that they may run risk to morph away from moral principles into a 'performative facade' (Bietti 2019 ) and, ultimately, that they are an 'easy'…”

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confidence: 99%

Actionable Principles for Artificial Intelligence Policy: Three Pathways

Stix

2021

Sci Eng Ethics

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In the development of governmental policy for artificial intelligence (AI) that is informed by ethics, one avenue currently pursued is that of drawing on “AI Ethics Principles”. However, these AI Ethics Principles often fail to be actioned in governmental policy. This paper proposes a novel framework for the development of ‘Actionable Principles for AI’. The approach acknowledges the relevance of AI Ethics Principles and homes in on methodological elements to increase their practical implementability in policy processes. As a case study, elements are extracted from the development process of the Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI of the European Commission’s “High Level Expert Group on AI”. Subsequently, these elements are expanded on and evaluated in light of their ability to contribute to a prototype framework for the development of 'Actionable Principles for AI'. The paper proposes the following three propositions for the formation of such a prototype framework: (1) preliminary landscape assessments; (2) multi-stakeholder participation and cross-sectoral feedback; and, (3) mechanisms to support implementation and operationalizability.

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From Ethics Washing to Ethics Bashing: A View on Tech Ethics from Within Moral Philosophy

Cited by 80 publications

References 14 publications

Unpacking the Expressed Consequences of AI Research in Broader Impact Statements

Unpacking the Expressed Consequences of AI Research in Broader Impact Statements

Philosophy, Law, and Ethics of Handling COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia

Actionable Principles for Artificial Intelligence Policy: Three Pathways

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