The Key Concepts of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Author: Ville Vakkuri, Pekka Abrahamsson

Publisher: IEEE Xplore

Publication Year: 2018

Summary: The following article seeks to find out what the reoccurring themes are in artificial intelligence (AI) ethics discourse as a way of understanding the current state of AI ethics as well as determining a direction for AI ethics going forward by using these themes to create a framework. 1062 papers were analyzed and 37 reoccurring keywords words related to AI ethics were found in the study and these keywords were compared to current proposed data ethics concepts. The study found that the most common themes (outside of the phrase “data ethics” itself which was removed from the findings) were related to robotics and self-driving cars. For each keyword extracted, these were categorized into 8 different sections: conceptual, robotics, general philosophy, AI specific philosophy, laws and regulation, autonomous vehicles, AGI and AI risk, human cognition, and technology based.