The deluge of ethics principles

Now that you have learned about the wide variety of ethical challenges related to AI, it might not surprise you that several big tech companies, governments, and all kinds of organisations have come up with lists of ethical principles for the development and deployment of AI. In this video we will delve into the different ethical principles that have come up in discussions on AI. Below you can read more about attempts to reach collective standards and harmonised rules.

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• Roos de Jong contributed to a piece of the Rathenau Instituut arguing that the many ethics codes developed by various parties have contributed to clarifying goals, boundaries and preconditions, and that it’s time to move towards shared rules and legislation for the development and use of AI → “This is how we put AI into practice based on European Values”

• Another Rathenau-reports might also be of interest in this context. In Human Rights in the Robot Age the Rathenau Instituut describes how human rights, such as non-discrimination and the right to a fair trial, can come under pressure as a result of digitalisation (among other things by AI).

• Floridi, L. Translating Principles into Practices of Digital Ethics: Five Risks of Being Unethical. Philos. Technol. 32, 185–193 (2019).

• Or watch the video about how toput AI into practice based on European Values