Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

An Introduction to Ethics and AI

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (ACAI 2021)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 13500))

Included in the following conference series:

Abstract

In this paper we discuss the relationship between Ethics and AI. First, we present a non-exhaustive panorama of ethical issues raised by AI, with a focus on the fact that not all problems can be solved by technological advancements. Second, we introduce what is Ethics and how AI may need changing it. Finally, we will consider how AI can impact current ethical theories.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 59.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 79.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Notes

  1. 1.

    https://inventory.algorithmwatch.org/.

  2. 2.

    https://algorithmwatch.org/en/ai-ethics-guidelines-inventory-upgrade-2020/.

  3. 3.

    Ruha Benjamin. 2019. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. Polity Press, Cambridge, UK.

  4. 4.

    A reading suggestion on this topic is the Nobel prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel: Clara and the Sun.

  5. 5.

    Kate Crawford: Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence, Yale University Press 2021.

  6. 6.

    Paul Ekman. “Facial Expression and Emotion”. American Psychologist. 48 (4): 384–92, 1993.

  7. 7.

    Amedeo Santosuosso. Intelligenza artificiale e diritto. Perché le tecnologie di IA sono una grande opportunità per il diritto. Mondadori, 2021.

  8. 8.

    David Weinberger. Everyday Chaos. Harvard Business Review Press, 2019.

  9. 9.

    https://www.economist.com/special-report/2021/04/08/robots-threaten-jobs-less-than-fearmongers-claim.

  10. 10.

    Zuboff, Shoshana. The age of surveillance capitalism: the fight for a human future at the new frontier of power. First edition, Public Affairs, 2019.

  11. 11.

    Emile Durkheim, The Division of Labor in Society, 1893.

  12. 12.

    Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens, a brief history of humankind. Random House, 2014.

  13. 13.

    Luciano Floridi and Josh Cowls, A Unified Framework of Five Principles for AI in Society, Harvard Data Science Review, 1.1, 2019.

  14. 14.

    Beauchamp, Tom L., and James F. Childress. Principles of Biomedical Ethics (5th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

  15. 15.

    Ivana Bartoletti, An Artificial Revolution: On Power, Politics and AI. Indigo Press, 2020.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Torino, Turin, Italy

    Guido Boella

  2. Italian Society for the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Turin, Italy

    Maurizio Mori

Authors
  1. Guido Boella
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Maurizio Mori
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Guido Boella .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Sorbonne University, Paris, France

    Mohamed Chetouani

  2. Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

    Virginia Dignum

  3. German Research Centre for Artificial Inteligence, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Paul Lukowicz

  4. Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Bellaterra, Spain

    Carles Sierra

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2023 Springer Nature Switzerland AG

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Boella, G., Mori, M. (2023). An Introduction to Ethics and AI. In: Chetouani, M., Dignum, V., Lukowicz, P., Sierra, C. (eds) Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. ACAI 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13500. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24349-3_13

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24349-3_13

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-031-24348-6

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-031-24349-3

  • eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation