Mapping value sensitive design onto AI for social good principles

Umbrello, Steven; Poel, Ibo van de

doi:10.1007/s43681-021-00038-3

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“…A common criticism of Value-Sensitive Design (VSD) is that it lacks a method for resolving trade-offs, except if designers commit to an explicit – and therefore likely controversial – ethical theory ( 56 , 57 ). This challenge will also affect proposals to implement digital ethics principles through (a modified version of) VSD ( 12 ). A4R suggests a way to overcome it: by structuring their decision-making processes according to the right kinds of procedural values, designers will be able to reach decisions that stakeholders can recognize as legitimate and therefore acceptable.…”

Section: Adapting A4r To Digital Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

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From General Principles to Procedural Values: Responsible Digital Health Meets Public Health Ethics

Nyrup

2021

Front. Digit. Health

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Most existing work in digital ethics is modeled on the “principlist” approach to medical ethics, seeking to articulate a small set of general principles to guide ethical decision-making. Critics have highlighted several limitations of such principles, including (1) that they mask ethical disagreements between and within stakeholder communities, and (2) that they provide little guidance for how to resolve trade-offs between different values. This paper argues that efforts to develop responsible digital health practices could benefit from paying closer attention to a different branch of medical ethics, namely public health ethics. In particular, I argue that the influential “accountability for reasonableness” (A4R) approach to public health ethics can help overcome some of the limitations of existing digital ethics principles. A4R seeks to resolve trade-offs through decision-procedures designed according to certain shared procedural values. This allows stakeholders to recognize decisions reached through these procedures as legitimate, despite their underlying disagreements. I discuss the prospects for adapting A4R to the context of responsible digital health and suggest questions for further research.

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Section: Adapting A4r To Digital Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Yet how this is to be done largely remains an open question ( 11 ). Consequently, digital ethicists have increasingly turned their attention to how such principles can best be translated into practice, whether through new design practices ( 5 , 12 , 13 ) or new forms of legislation and regulation ( 14 , 15 ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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From General Principles to Procedural Values: Responsible Digital Health Meets Public Health Ethics

Nyrup

2021

Front. Digit. Health

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“…In fact, so far AI seems to hinder rather than to facilitate a value-sensitive deployment of technology: Most AI models are black box models. Therefore, designers have only limited possibilities to comprehend whether AI systems perform the tasks at hand in ways that embody the relevant values or not [33]. This may partly explain why, despite all efforts and many billions spent, automated society did not meet the expectations, yet.…”

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Ethics of Smart Cities: Towards Value-Sensitive Design and Co-Evolving City Life

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The digital revolution has brought about many societal changes such as the creation of “smart cities”. The smart city concept has changed the urban ecosystem by embedding digital technologies in the city fabric to enhance the quality of life of its inhabitants. However, it has also led to some pressing issues and challenges related to data, privacy, ethics inclusion, and fairness. While the initial concept of smart cities was largely technology- and data-driven, focused on the automation of traffic, logistics and processes, this concept is currently being replaced by technology-enabled, human-centred solutions. However, this is not the end of the development, as there is now a big trend towards “design for values”. In this paper, we point out how a value-sensitive design approach could promote a more sustainable pathway of cities that better serves people and nature. Such “value-sensitive design” will have to take ethics, law and culture on board. We discuss how organising the digital world in a participatory way, as well as leveraging the concepts of self-organisation, self-regulation, and self-control, would foster synergy effects and thereby help to leverage a sustainable technological revolution on a global scale. Furthermore, a “democracy by design” approach could also promote resilience.

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“…The three perspectives are iteratively employed. Over the years VSD has been applied to various domains, including the design of browsers (Friedman, Howe & Felten (2002), wind turbines and wind parks (Oosterlaken, 2015) and AI systems (Umbrello & van de Poel, 2021). DIGITAL SUPPORT FROM CRISIS TO PROGRESSIVE CHANGE…”

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Data Management Platforms: An Empirical Taxonomy

Hüllmann¹,

Sivakumar²,

Krebber³

2021

34th Bled eConference Digital Support From Crisis to Progressive Change: Conference Proceedings

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Data management platforms (DMPs) are a widely used means of placing targeted advertising, for example, commercial or political advertisements. However, only a few academic papers shed light on the platforms’ mechanisms. These mechanisms’ opacity makes it hard for consumers to understand what happens with their data, and regulators struggle to implement effective regulations. Hence, we develop a taxonomy to understand and compare different characteristics of DMPs. Following Nickerson’s (2013) method and combining an inductive and deductive approach, eight dimensions emerge that differentiate DMPs. We evaluate the taxonomy’s applicability and test it with a set of nine DMPs, which we select by feasibility, relevance, and popularity. The application shows that the eight dimensions cover the significant features that explain most of the variance in characteristics between DMPs. The evaluation revealed opportunities for further development of the taxonomy

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Mapping value sensitive design onto AI for social good principles

Cited by 128 publications

References 58 publications

From General Principles to Procedural Values: Responsible Digital Health Meets Public Health Ethics

From General Principles to Procedural Values: Responsible Digital Health Meets Public Health Ethics

Ethics of Smart Cities: Towards Value-Sensitive Design and Co-Evolving City Life

Data Management Platforms: An Empirical Taxonomy

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