2022/06/21 by Sarah Spiekermann, Spiekermann, Sarah, Till J. Winkler +1
Engineering · Social Sciences · #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #Ethics and Social Impacts of AI #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Systems Engineering Methodologies and Applications
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2207.07599
openalex publication_date 2022/06/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Digital ethics is being discussed worldwide as a necessity to create more reliable IT systems. This discussion, fueled by the fear of uncontrollable artificial intelligence (AI) has moved many institutions and scientists to demand a value-based system engineering. This article presents how organizations can build responsible and ethically founded systems with the 'Value-based Engineering' (VBE) approach that was standardized in the IEEE 7000TM standard. VBE is a transparent, clearly-structured, step-by-step methodology combining innovation management, risk management, system and software engineering in one process framework. It embeds a robust value ontology and terminology. It has been tested in various case studies. This article introduces readers to the most important steps and contributions of the approach.