Lecture

The Ethics of AI: Autonomy and Responsibility

Graph Chat

Chat with Graph Search

Ask any question about EPFL courses, lectures, exercises, research, news, etc. or try the example questions below.

DISCLAIMER: The Graph Chatbot is not programmed to provide explicit or categorical answers to your questions. Rather, it transforms your questions into API requests that are distributed across the various IT services officially administered by EPFL. Its purpose is solely to collect and recommend relevant references to content that you can explore to help you answer your questions.

In course

DH-415: Ethics and law of AI

This master course enables students to sharpen their proficiency in tackling ethical and legal challenges linked to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Students acquire the competence to define AI and identify ethical and legal questions linked to its conception ...

Description

This lecture covers the ethical considerations related to artificial intelligence, focusing on autonomy and responsibility. It delves into the challenges of accountability in innovation processes, discussing legal and moral responsibilities. The instructor emphasizes the distinction between negative and positive responsibilities, as well as the concept of a 'responsibility gap'. The session also explores the delegation of tasks to machines and the implications for accountability. Furthermore, it addresses the importance of justifying one's conduct to an authority and the supervisory role of forums in passing judgment.

Official source

Related concepts (31)

Moral responsibility

In philosophy, moral responsibility is the status of morally deserving praise, blame, reward, or punishment for an act or omission in accordance with one's moral obligations. Deciding what (if anything) counts as "morally obligatory" is a principal concern of ethics. Philosophers refer to people who have moral responsibility for an action as "moral agents". Agents have the capability to reflect upon their situation, to form intentions about how they will act, and then to carry out that action.

Social responsibility

Social responsibility is an ethical framework in which an individual is obligated to work and cooperate with other individuals and organizations for the benefit of the community that will inherit the world that individual leaves behind. Social responsibility is a duty every individual has to maintain; a balance between the economy and the ecosystem one lives within. A trade-off might perhaps exist between economic development, in the material sense, and the welfare of the society and environment.

Outline of ethics

Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concern matters of value, and thus comprise the branch of philosophy called axiology. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ethics.

Business ethics

Business ethics (also known as corporate ethics) is a form of applied ethics or professional ethics, that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that can arise in a business environment. It applies to all aspects of business conduct and is relevant to the conduct of individuals and entire organizations. These ethics originate from individuals, organizational statements or the legal system. These norms, values, ethical, and unethical practices are the principles that guide a business.

Virtue ethics

Virtue ethics (also aretaic ethics, from Greek ἀρετή [aretḗ]) is an approach to ethics that treats virtue as central. Virtue ethics is usually contrasted with two other major approaches in ethics, consequentialism and deontology, which make the goodness of outcomes of an action (consequentialism) and the concept of moral duty (deontology) central. While virtue ethics does not necessarily deny the importance to ethics of goodness of states of affairs or of moral duties, it emphasizes virtue, and sometimes other concepts, like eudaimonia, to an extent that other ethics theories do not.

Related lectures (41)

Ethics and Law of AI

Delves into ethics and law in AI, focusing on values, normative ambitions, and ethical challenges.

Designing Learning Tools: Introduction

Introduces 'How People Learn: Designing Learning Tools' at EPFL, focusing on emotions, diversity, and ethics in engineering education.

Ethics and Law of AI

Delves into different ethical theories and thought experiments in the context of AI, exploring the challenges of defining AI.

Ethics in Artificial Intelligence: Key Considerations

Discusses the ethical implications of artificial intelligence for engineers and its regulatory context.

Normative News Recommender Systems