ESDiT Publications

@article{nokey,

title = {If conceptual engineering is a new method in the ethics of AI, what method is it exactly?},

author = {Guido Löhr},

doi = {10.1007/s43681-023-00295-4},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-05-16},

urldate = {2023-05-16},

journal = {AI and Ethics},

abstract = {Can a machine be a person? Can a robot think, be our friend or colleague? These familiar questions in the ethics of AI have recently become much more urgent than many philosophers anticipated. However, they also seem as intractable as ever. For this reason, several philosophers of AI have recently turned their attention to an arguably new method: conceptual engineering. The idea is to stop searching for the real essence of friendship or our ordinary concept of the person. Instead, ethicists of AI should engineer concepts of friend or person we should apply. But what exactly is this method? There is currently no consensus on what the target object of conceptual engineers is or should be. In this paper, I reject a number of popular options and then argue for a pragmatist way of thinking about the target object of conceptual engineering in the ethics of AI. I conclude that in this pragmatist picture, conceptual engineering is probably what we have been doing all along. So, is it all just hype? No, the idea that the ethics of AI has been dominated by conceptual engineers all along constitutes an important meta-philosophical insight. We can build on this insight to develop a more rigorous and thorough methodology in the ethics of AI.},

keywords = {AI Ethics, Artificial intelligence, Conceptual engineering, Conceptual ethics, Pragmatism, Representationalism},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{nokey,

title = {In defense of ethical guidelines},

author = {Björn Lundgren},

doi = {10.1007/s43681-022-00244-7},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-17},

urldate = {2023-01-17},

journal = {AI and Ethics},

keywords = {AI Ethics, Ethical principles, Ethics guidelines},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{nokey,

title = {The role of the African value of Ubuntu in global AI inclusion discourse: A normative ethics perspective},

author = {Arthur Gwagwa and Emre Kazim and Airlie Hilliard},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2022.100462},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-04-08},

urldate = {2022-04-08},

journal = {Patterns},

volume = {3},

number = {100462},

issue = {4},

keywords = {African ethics and values, AI Ethics, Artificial intelligence, Ubuntu philosophy, Utilitarianism},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Gwagwa2021,

title = {Road map for research on responsible artificial intelligence for development (AI4D) in African countries: The case study of agriculture},

author = {Arthur Gwagwa and Emre Kazim and Patti Kachidza and Airlie Hilliard and Kathleen Siminyu and Matthew Smith and John Shawe-Taylor},

doi = {10.1016/j.patter.2021.100381},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-12-10},

journal = {Perspective},

volume = {2},

number = {100381},

issue = {12},

keywords = {Africa, AI Ethics, Artificial intelligence, Development, Responsible AI},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}