The Role and Limits of Principles in AI Ethics: Toward a Focus on Tensions

Author: Jess Whittlestone et al.; Publisher: Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society; Publication Year: 2019. The following research article argues that there are tensions between common principles guiding ethical decision-making about artificial intelligence (AI). They explain 4 key tensions: service quality versus privacy, accuracy versus fair treatment, personalization versus solidarity, and convenience versus dignity. By analogy with bioethics, the authors also argue…