ID	788
Authors	VICĂ Constantin, VOINEA Cristina, USZKAI Radu
Title	The emperor is naked
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Subtitle	Moral diplomacies and the ethics of AI
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Keywords	moral diplomacies, moral bureaucracy, AI ethics, AI guidelines, ethics washing
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Issue	2021/2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.22503/inftars.XXI.2021.2.6
Abstract	With AI permeating our lives, there is widespread concern regarding the proper framework needed to morally assess and regulate it. This has given rise to many attempts to devise ethical guidelines that infuse guidance for both AI development and deployment. Our main concern is that, instead of a genuine ethical interest for AI, we are witnessing moral diplomacies resulting in moral bureaucracies battling for moral supremacy and political domination. After providing a short overview of what we term ‘ethics washing’ in the AI industry, we analyze the 2021 UNESCO Intergovernmental Meeting of Experts (Category II) tasked with drafting the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and show why the term ‘moral diplomacy’ is better suited to explain what is happening in the field of the ethics of AI. Our paper ends with some general considerations regarding the future of the ethics of AI.
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Language	English
Pages	83-96
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