Unit:
Specialty Science, Technology, Society-Science and Technology StudiesLibrary of the School of Science
Author:
Konstantis Konstantinos
Supervisors info:
Γκότσης Γεώργιος, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Φιλοσοφίας της Επιστήμης, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Τύμπας Αριστοτέλης, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Φιλοσοφίας της Επιστήμης, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Δρακόπουλος Σταύρος, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Φιλοσοφίας της Επιστήμης, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Original Title:
Big Tech and AI Ethics: Inputs from STS
Translated title:
Big Tech and AI Ethics: Inputs from STS
Summary:
In this thesis, I claim that artificial intelligence (AI) ethics cannot be adequate and complete if it does not include Science and Technology Studies (STS) approaches; I suggest STS inputs that should be included in AI ethics. AI is everywhere: AI systems take decisions for us constantly. Users of AI have started to be worried about the consequences that AI has in their lives. Thus, tech companies, citizens and governments have started to talk about AI ethics. Privacy, transparency, biases, accountability and inclusiveness are only some of many ethical problems that arise as a result of AI. In this thesis, I will first provide a historical contextualization for AI. Second, I will offer an overview of the ethical problems which come together with AI, and which users and designers of AI should be aware of. Third, I will give an STS perspective on AI, in terms of how it is designed by big tech and how this perspective impacts AI ethics; in my view, talking about AI ethics without taking into account STS approaches is not enough. Fourth, I will refer to the secondary literature on AI ethics and the way that the media presents big tech and its relation with AI ethics. Fifth, I will analyze the policy of Microsoft in relation to AI ethics. As I will explain in Chapter 3, among big tech companies, Microsoft has one of the most complete and adequate policies in the field of AI ethics. It is my intention to point out that even Microsoft’s policy in AI ethics, however, requires an STS perspective.
Main subject category:
Science
Keywords:
AI (artificial intelligence) ethics and STS, big tech, Microsoft’s policy and AI ethics, transparency/black box and AI, bias and AI
