Abstract
Researchers and managers need to better understand how different ideas of ethics shape how artificial intelligence can be effectively applied and leveraged as a source of competitive advantage. More fundamentally, managers need to understand how the competitive use of artificial intelligence cannot be differentiated from the specific ethical claims reflected in the design, operation, management, and maintenance of the technology. We pose how AI can be given dimensions to provide better insight into ethical requirements. We pose, however, that there is no ethical panacea, rather that the effective global management of ethical and unethical AI requires a larger common meta-ethical approach.
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Grossman (2018).
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Esposito et al. (Forthcoming).
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See Dewey et al. (2012).
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See for inspiration, as the specific concept of relevant in relation to moral propositions derives from Matheis’s work (2016).
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However, within the field, there is a divide between those who believe the current set of solution and problems genuinely constitute AI or whether such neural networks, or any other similar solution (machine learning, deep learning, etc.) is simply imitation.
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“Deep Learning beyond Cats and Dogs: Recent Advances in …”. Accessed 2019. http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~bagci/publications/catsdogs.pdf.
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Managers should learn to discriminate between systems that learn how to perform a specific task, and system that can learn “how to learn” how to perform that or other tasks.
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Garcia (2018).
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Goldhill and Goldhill (2018).
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Katwala (2018).
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The intercept (2019).
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Day (2018).
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“Does Predictive Policing Work?—Instituto Igarapé.” Igarape.org.br. https://igarape.org.br/does-predictive-policing-work/.
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For inspiration, see Scott (2008). The issue is identified in relation to government organization of forestation in strict rows by virtue of state defined reasons.
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Esposito et al. (Forthcoming).
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Ibid.
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Esposito et al. (Forthcoming)
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Esposito, M., Entsminger, J., Xiong, L. (2020). A Manager’s Introduction to AI Ethics. In: Pfeffermann, N. (eds) New Leadership in Strategy and Communication. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19681-3_7
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