Research Guides: Artificial Intelligence: AI & Ethics

The Ethics of AI

The AI4People group (linked below), in surveying AI opportunities and risks, developed the following principles based on traditional bioethics principles (1-4) and adding one:

Beneficence: Promoting Well-Being, Preserving Dignity, and Sustaining the Planet
Non-maleficence: Privacy, Security and “Capability Caution”
Autonomy: The Power to Decide (Whether to Decide)
Justice: Promoting Prosperity and Preserving Solidarity
Explicability: Enabling the Other Principles Through Intelligibility and Accountability

AI4People-An Ethical Framework for a Good AI Society: Opportunities, Risks, Principles, and Recommendations
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Floridi, L., Cowls, J., Beltrametti, M., Chatila, R., Chazerand, P., Dignum, V., Luetge, C., Madelin, R., Pagallo, U., Rossi, F., Schafer, B., Valcke, P., & Vayena, E. (2018). AI4People-An Ethical Framework for a Good AI Society: Opportunities, Risks, Principles, and Recommendations. Minds and machines, 28(4), 689–707. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-018-9482-5

In 2024, UNESCO declared the following four principles that must underlay the foundations of all AI systems:

Human rights and human dignity: Respect, protection and promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms and human dignity
Living in peaceful just, and interconnected societies
Ensuring diversity and inclusiveness
Environment and ecosystem flourishing

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (UNESCO, 2024)
Recommendations on ethical AI governance following the 2nd Global Forum on the Ethics of AI: Changing the Landscape of AI Governance in February 2024 from UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).

Theory and Practice: AI Ethics

A Beginner’s Guide to Data Ethics
Big Data at Berkeley
August, 2020

Big Data: An Exploration of Opportunities, Values, and Privacy Issues by Cody Agnellutti
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9781633213982
Publication Date: 2014-01-01

Data & Society Library
Data & Society is an independent nonprofit research organization. Their library collects original empirical research and expert commentary on topics connecting technology to labor, safety and security, and human rights. Contains academic research articles, blog posts, podcasts, books and chapters, videos, etc.
Ethical Algorithm Design Should Guide Technology Regulation
Brookings Institution (a nonprofit research organization)
January 2020

Reflections on Artificial Intelligence for Humanity by Bertrand Braunschweig (Editor), Malik Ghallab (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 3030691284
Publication Date: 2021
Towards a Code of Ethics for Artificial Intelligence by Paula Boddington
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 3319606484
Publication Date: 2017

Teaching AI Ethics

Teaching AI Ethics: The Series (Leon Furze)
A guide for teachers on AI ethics - "Each post includes a detailed discussion of the ethical concern along with links to other articles and resources. There are case studies, discussion questions for a variety of disciplines, and lesson ideas which can be used across the curriculum."

AI & Ethics: Organizations

AI & Human Rights / Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
EPIC's topic page for AI and ethics.
AI Now
The AI Now Institute produces interdisciplinary research on the social implications of artificial intelligence and acts as a hub for the emerging field focused on these issues. Currently, research focuses on four key domains: rights and liberties, labor and automation, bias and inclusion, and safety and critical infrastructure.
Algorithmic Justice League
AJL’s mission is to raise public awareness about the impacts of AI, equip advocates with empirical research to bolster campaigns, build the voice and choice of most impacted communities, and galvanize researchers, policymakers, and industry practitioners to mitigate AI bias and harms.
Algorithm Watch
AlgorithmWatch is a non-profit research and advocacy organization that is committed to watch, unpack and analyze automated decision-making (ADM) systems and their impact on society.
Black in AI
Black in AI increases the presence and inclusion of Black people in the field of AI by creating space for sharing ideas, fostering collaborations, mentorship and advocacy.
Data & Society
Data & Society is an independent nonprofit research organization. They believe that empirical evidence should directly inform the development and governance of new technology. They study the social implications of data and automation, producing original research to ground informed, evidence-based public debate about emerging technology.
Data Justice Lab
The Data Justice Lab examines the intricate relationship between datafication and social justice, highlighting the politics and impacts of data-driven processes and big data.
Indigenous AI: Abundant Intelligences
Indigenous AI is a collaborative, international research program focused on building an AI that recognizes and builds upon Indigenous knowledge systems and structures. Abundant Intelligences is their current longterm project.
Montreal AI Ethics Institute
Guidance and instruction on AI ethics issues.

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