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This book covers broad topics on the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI). The collection makes a case for a wider outlook on the ethics of AI. The goal of these chapters is to entertain more diverse views, particularly those from Africa. This edited volume appeals to researchers and students working in ethics and philosophy of technology.
Previously published in Ethics and Information Technology Volume 23, issue 2, June 2021
List of contents
Critically engaging the ethics of AI for a global audience.- Applying a principle of explicability to AI research in Africa: should we do it?.- An ontic-ontological theory for ethics of designing social robots: a case of Black African women and humanoids.- Artificial intelligence and African conceptions of personhood.- Computationally rational agents can be moral agents.- The artificial view: toward a non-anthropocentric account of moral patiency.- The possibility of deliberate norm-adherence in AI.
About the author
Samuel Segun Ph.D. is a Research Fellow at the Stellenbosch University School for Data Science and Computational Thinking, where he works on the project "Data and Computational Ethics in Africa". He is also an Associate Fellow of the AI Ethics Group at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR), University of Pretoria, where his research includes machine and data ethics, the ethics of social robotics as well as research around AI policy.
Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem is professor and head of the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria. She is the leader of the ethics of artificial intelligence research group atthe Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR) in South Africa.
