Description
Recent technological advancements have deeply transformed society and the way people interact with each other. Instantaneous communication platforms have allowed connections with other people, forming global communities, and creating unprecedented opportunities in many sectors, making access to online resources more ubiquitous by reducing limitations imposed by geographical distance and temporal constrains. These technological developments bear ethically relevant consequences with their deployment, and legislations often lag behind such advancements. Because the appearance and deployment of these technologies happen much faster than legislative procedures, the way these technologies affect social interactions have profound ethical effects before any legislative regulation can be built, in order to prevent and mitigate those effects.
Ethics in Online AI-Based Systems: Risks and Opportunities in Current Technological Trends features a series of reflections from experts in different fields on potential ethically relevant outcomes that upcoming technological advances could bring about in our society. Creating a space to explore the ethical relevance that technologies currently still under development could have constitutes an opportunity to better understand how these technologies could or should not be used in the future in order to maximize their ethically beneficial outcomes, while avoiding potential detrimental effects. Stimulating reflection and considerations with respect to the design, deployment and use of technology will help guide current and future technological advancements from an ethically informed position in order to ensure that, tomorrow, such advancements could contribute towards solving current global and social challenges that we, as a society, have today. This will not only be useful for researchers and professional engineers, but also for educators, policy makers, and ethicists.
- Investigates how "intelligent" technological advances might be used, how they will affect social interactions, and what ethical consequences they might have for society
- Identifies and reflects on questions that need to be asked before the design, deployment, and application of upcoming technological advancements, aiming to both prevent and mitigate potential risks, as well as to identify potentially ethically-beneficial opportunities
- Recognizes the huge potential for ethically-relevant outcomes that technological advancements have, and take proactive steps to anticipate that they be designed from an ethically-informed position
- Provides reflections that highlight the importance of the relationship between technology, their users and our society, thus encouraging informed design and educational and legislative approaches that take this relationship into account
Table of Contents
PART I: Ethical Implications of Artificial Intelligence in Applications for Education 1. Adverse effects of intelligent support in CSCL - The Ethics of Conversational Agents 2. Navigating the Ethical Landscape of Multimodal Learning Analytics: A Guiding Framework 3. Ethics in Online AI-Based Assessment Systems 4. Ethical aspects regarding automatic emotion recognition used in online learning environments 5. Data-Driven Educational Decision-Making Model to Curriculum Optimization PART II: Ethical Implications of Artificial Intelligence in Autonomous Services and Systems 6. The Ethical Issues Raised By The Use Of AI Products For The Disabled: An Analysis By Two Disabled People 7. The Implications of Ethical Perspectives in AI and Autonomous Systems 8. The ethics of online AI-driven agricultural and food systems 9. AI and grief. A prospective study on the ethical and psychological implications of deathbots PART III: Ethical Implications of Artificial Intelligence Models and Experiences 10. On pitfalls (and advantages) of sophisticated Large Language Models 11. Perspectives on the Ethics of a VR- based Empathy Experience for Educators 12. Assessing and Implementing Trustworthy AI Across Multiple Dimensions 13. Artificial Intelligence and Basic Human Needs: The Shadow Aspects of Emerging Technology 14. Beyond Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics: Exploring Empathetic Ethical Outcomes for AI PART IV: Ethical Implications of Artificial Intelligence in Social and Political Involvement 15. Who Decides What Online and Beyond: Freedom of Choice in Predictive Machine-Learning Algorithms 16. The hard problem of the androcentric context of AI: Challenges for EU policy agendas 17. Curse of the Cyborg Mammoths: The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Manipulating and Mobilizing Human Emotions 18. On Deterring Hate Speech, Whilst Maximising Security and Privacy
