Ethics in Online AI-Based Systems

Risks and Opportunities in Current Technological Trends

Santi Caballé, Joan Casas-Roma, Jordi Conesa, Santi Caballé, Joan Casas-Roma, Jordi Conesa

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9780443188510
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443188503
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Business Intelligence
• Index: Computer Science

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

• Cover
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1 : Adverse effects of intelligent support of CSCL—the ethics of conversational agents
• Chapter 2 : Navigating the ethical landscape of multimodal learning analytics: a guiding framework
• Chapter 3 : Ethics in AI-based online assessment in higher education
• Chapter 4 : Ethical aspects of automatic emotion recognition in online learning
• Chapter 5 : Data-driven educational decision-making model for curriculum optimization
• Chapter 6 : The ethical issues raised by the use of Artificial Intelligence products for the disabled: an analysis by two disabled people
• Chapter 7 : The implications of ethical perspectives in AI and autonomous systems
• Chapter 8 : The ethics of online AI-driven agriculture and food systems
• Chapter 9 : AI and grief: a prospective study on the ethical and psychological implications of deathbots
• Chapter 10 : Pitfalls (and advantages) of sophisticated large language models
• Chapter 11 : Perspectives on the ethics of a VR-based empathy experience for educators
• Chapter 12 : Assessing and implementing trustworthy AI across multiple dimensions
• Chapter 13 : Artificial intelligence and basic human needs: the shadow aspects of emerging technology
• Chapter 14 : Beyond artificial intelligence ethics: exploring empathetic ethical outcomes for artificial intelligence
• Chapter 15 : Who decides what online and beyond: freedom of choice in predictive machine-learning algorithms
• Chapter 16 : The hard problem of the androcentric context of AI: challenges for EU policy agendas
• Chapter 17 : Curse of the cyborg mammoths: the use of artificial intelligence in manipulating and mobilizing human emotions
• Chapter 18 : On deterring hate speech, while maximizing security and privacy
• Index
• A