A Methodology for Ethics-by-Design AI Systems: Dealing with Human Value Conflicts
It addresses ethical challenges in AI deployment for organizations, but appears incremental as it builds on existing ethics-by-design concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of integrating ethics into AI systems to address human value conflicts, presenting a methodology for early-stage ethical design and demonstrating its application in two case studies in culture and scientific research.
The introduction of artificial intelligence into activities traditionally carried out by human beings produces brutal changes. This is not without consequences for human values. This paper is about designing and implementing models of ethical behaviors in AI-based systems, and more specifically it presents a methodology for designing systems that take ethical aspects into account at an early stage while finding an innovative solution to prevent human values from being affected. Two case studies where AI-based innovations complement economic and social proposals with this methodology are presented: one in the field of culture and operated by a private company, the other in the field of scientific research and supported by a state organization.