Tour of the world of ethics

Trust thought for today - real meanings of inclusion and ethics

I am learning what differences an approach to AI which focuses on Human Rights vs ethics vs algorithmic impact assessment actually brings in terms of design and impact.

I found this fantastic doc written for the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems on different ethical traditions interpreted for AI development. I haven't ever seen anything readable and practical so thought to share it.

“By drawing from over two thousand years’ worth of classical ethics traditions, we explore established ethics systems, including both philosophical traditions (utilitarianism, virtue ethics, and deontological ethics) and religious and culture-based ethical systems (Buddhism, Confucianism, African Ubuntu traditions, and Japanese Shinto) and their stance on human morality in the digital age. In doing so, we critique assumptions around concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, and we attempt to carry these inquiries into artificial systems’ decision-making processes.”

Actually embedding this thinking in design and production of products is a different matter of course!

Congrats, great work John C. Havens - did you write it, it seems to be part of a doc and no authors on it?

Click here:

https://lnkd.in/eUQNBd9E

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