Gaming the system is often portrayed as a threat to platforms and services, but this alleged threat can also be turned into a commercial service which raises ethical questions on exploitative digital environments, equality, and the erosion of democratic values.
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Mennatullah Hendawy critically examines how AI systems often perpetuate societal inequities by prioritising majority perspectives, marginalising underrepresented groups. Drawing from examples like predictive policing and agricultural tools in the Global South, she underscores the importance of considering the positionality of AI creators.
Introduction Globally, there are now over 800 AI policy initiatives, from the governments of at least 60 countries, with most being introduced after 2016. The United Kingdom (UK) is at the forefront of AI governance efforts, at least quantitatively, being second only to the United States (US) in terms of the number of national-level AI policies released (OECD.AI, 2021) and ranking top for the number of mentions of AI in legislative documents between 2016 and 2021 (Zhang et al., 2022). According to the OECD, the US has released 55 documents, the UK 53, the EU 59, and China 22. These figures do not evidence the UK producing better outcomes than other countries that have published fewer …
The planned sharing of UK patients’ data is controversial. What lessons can be learned for ethical and legal governance of health data?
Do machines have morality? Should robots have rights? Which ethical guideline should we adopt to orient their advancement? In this paper we will discuss the main normative and ethical challenges imposed by the artificial intelligence context.
This paper explores how four approaches to cyber security are constructed, motivated and justified by different values such as privacy, economic order and national security and what this means for the actors involved.
Agribusinesses are buying into big data for its predictive powers, bypassing farmers and aggregating previously proprietary farming data. Given this power asymmetry, what are the ethics of the use of big data in big agriculture?