Research and Practice of AI Ethics: A Case Study Approach Juxtaposing Academic Discourse with Organisational Reality

Mark Ryan*, Josephina Antoniou, Laurence Brooks, Tilimbe Jiya, Kevin Macnish, Bernd Stahl

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    Abstract

    This study investigates the ethical use of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies (BD + AI)—using an empirical approach. The paper categorises the current literature and presents a multi-case study of 'on-the-ground' ethical issues that uses qualitative tools to analyse findings from ten targeted case-studies from a range of domains. The analysis coalesces identified singular ethical issues, (from the literature), into clusters to offer a comparison with the proposed classification in the literature. The results show that despite the variety of different social domains, fields, and applications of AI, there is overlap and correlation between the organisations’ ethical concerns. This more detailed understanding of ethics in AI + BD is required to ensure that the multitude of suggested ways of addressing them can be targeted and succeed in mitigating the pertinent ethical issues that are often discussed in the literature.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number16
    JournalScience and Engineering Ethics
    Volume27
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 8 Mar 2021

    Keywords

    • Artificial intelligence ethics
    • Big data analytics
    • Multiple-case study analysis
    • Philosophy of technology
    • Smart information systems

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