2022/12/15 by Anne Gerdes · 1 voice · 24 citations
Engineering · Neuroscience · Social Sciences · #Business #Engineering #Engineering ethics #Environmental ethics #Ethics and Social Impacts of AI #Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations #Philosophy #Political science #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment #Sociology
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s44163-022-00043-3
published in Discover Artificial Intelligence 2(1) (Springer Nature)
openalex publication_date 2022/12/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/02
Abstract This paper reflects on the tech industry’s colonization of the AI ethics research field and addresses conflicts of interest in public policymaking concerning AI. The AI ethics research community faces two intertwined challenges: In the first place, we have a tech industry heavily influencing the AI ethics research agenda. Secondly, cleaning up after the tech industry has implied that we have turned to value-driven design methods to bring ethics to AI design. But by framing research questions relevant to a technical practice, we have facilitated the technological solutionism behind the tech industry’s business model. Therefore, this paper takes the first steps to reshape the AI ethics research agenda by suggesting moving toward an emancipatory framework that brings politics to design while, at the same time, bearing in mind that AI is not to be treated as an inevitability. As a research community, we must focus on the repressive power dynamics exacerbated by AI and address challenges facing the vulnerable groups seldom heard, despite the fact that they are the ones most negatively affected by AI initiatives.