Ethics of artificial intelligence 1
Vincent C. Müller
Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a digital technology that will be of major importance for the development of humanity in the near future. This chapter outlines the ethical issues of human use of AI and robotics systems that can be more or less autonomous. The ethical issues of AI in surveillance go beyond the mere accumulation of data and direction of attention: They include the use of information for problematic purposes. Opacity and bias are central issues in what is now sometimes called ‘data ethics’ or ‘big data ethics’. Automated AI decision support systems and ‘predictive analytics’ operate on data and produce a decision as ‘output’. Human-robot interaction (HRI) is an academic field in its own right that now pays significant attention to ethical matters, the dynamics of perception from both sides, and both the different interests present in and the intricacy of the social context, including co-working.