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The recent surge in interest in ethics in artificial intelligence may leave many educators wondering how to address moral, ethical, and philosophical issues in their AI courses. As instructors we want to develop curriculum that not only…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-27 Emanuelle Burton , Judy Goldsmith , Sven Koenig , Benjamin Kuipers , Nicholas Mattei , Toby Walsh

The exponential development and application of artificial intelligence triggered an unprecedented global concern for potential social and ethical issues. Stakeholders from different industries, international foundations, governmental…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Pascale Fung , Hubert Etienne

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly widespread in system development endeavors. As AI systems affect various stakeholders due to their unique nature, the growing influence of these systems calls for ethical considerations.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Ville Vakkuri , Kai-Kristian Kemell , Pekka Abrahamsson

In the last few years, AI continues demonstrating its positive impact on society while sometimes with ethically questionable consequences. Building and maintaining public trust in AI has been identified as the key to successful and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Liming Zhu , Xiwei Xu , Qinghua Lu , Guido Governatori , Jon Whittle

The ethics of automated vehicles (AV) has received a great amount of attention in recent years, specifically in regard to their decisional policies in accident situations in which human harm is a likely consequence. After a discussion about…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Katherine Evans , Nelson de Moura , Raja Chatila , Stéphane Chauvier

Traditionally, the way one evaluates the performance of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system is via a comparison to human performance in specific tasks, treating humans as a reference for high-level cognition. However, these comparisons…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Camilo M. Signorelli , Xerxes D. Arsiwalla

Ethics of algorithms is an emerging topic in various disciplines such as social science, law, and philosophy, but also artificial intelligence (AI). The value alignment problem expresses the challenge of (machine) learning values that are,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Martijn van Otterlo

As AI systems become increasingly sophisticated, questions about machine consciousness and its ethical implications have moved from fringe speculation to mainstream academic debate. Current ethical frameworks in this domain often implicitly…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Zhou Ziheng , Haiqiang Dai , Bin Ling , Ying Nian Wu , Demetri Terzopoulos

The question of whether artificial entities deserve moral consideration has become one of the defining ethical challenges of AI research. Existing frameworks for moral patiency rely on verified ontological properties, such as sentience,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Faezeh B. Pasandi , Hannah B. Pasandi

Progress in the field of artificial intelligence has been accelerating rapidly in the past two decades. Various autonomous systems from purely digital ones to autonomous vehicles are being developed and deployed out on the field. As these…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Ville Vakkuri , Kai-Kristian Kemell , Joni Kultanen , Mikko Siponen , Pekka Abrahamsson

The growing influence and decision-making capacities of Autonomous systems and Artificial Intelligence in our lives force us to consider the values embedded in these systems. But how ethics should be implemented into these systems? In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Ville Vakkuri , Pekka Abrahamsson

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming our daily life with several applications in healthcare, space exploration, banking and finance. These rapid progresses in AI have brought increasing attention to the potential impacts of AI…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Lionel Nganyewou Tidjon , Foutse Khomh

This study is focused on the ethics of Artificial Intelligence and its application in the United States, the paper highlights the impact AI has in every sector of the US economy and multiple facets of the technological space and the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Esther Taiwo , Ahmed Akinsola , Edward Tella , Kolade Makinde , Mayowa Akinwande

The introduction of artificial intelligence into activities traditionally carried out by human beings produces brutal changes. This is not without consequences for human values. This paper is about designing and implementing models of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Fabrice Muhlenbach

Drawing on Ullmann-Margalit's concept of opting (transformative, irrevocable, and shadowed by foreclosed alternatives), we show that current AI systems raise a profound ethical problem that existing AI ethics has not fully captured: the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Eugene Yu Ji

In this essay, I argue that explicit ethical machines, whose moral principles are inferred through a bottom-up approach, are unable to replicate human-like moral reasoning and cannot be considered moral agents. By utilizing Alan Turing's…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Massimo Passamonti

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics is a nascent yet critical research field. Recent developments in generative AI and foundational models necessitate a renewed look at the problem of AI Ethics. In this study, we perform a bibliometric…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Di Kevin Gao , Andrew Haverly , Sudip Mittal , Jingdao Chen

We examine implemented systems for ethical machine reasoning with a view to identifying the practical challenges (as opposed to philosophical challenges) posed by the area. We identify a need for complex ethical machine reasoning not only…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Louise Dennis , Michael Fisher

Given the fast rise of increasingly autonomous artificial agents and robots, a key acceptability criterion will be the possible moral implications of their actions. In particular, intelligent persuasive systems (systems designed to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-04-16 Marco Guerini , Fabio Pianesi , Oliviero Stock

As AI systems become increasingly powerful and pervasive, there are growing concerns about machines' morality or a lack thereof. Yet, teaching morality to machines is a formidable task, as morality remains among the most intensely debated…