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Researchers’ Concerns on Artificial Intelligence Ethics : Results from a Scenario-Based Survey (2024)

Jantunen, M., Meyes, R., Kurchyna, V., Meisen, T., Abrahamsson, P., & Mohanani, R. (2024). Researchers’ Concerns on Artificial Intelligence Ethics : Results from a Scenario-Based Survey. In IWSiB '24 : Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Software-intensive Business (pp. 24-31). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643690.3648238

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Publication details

All authors or editors: Jantunen, Marianna; Meyes, Richard; Kurchyna, Veronika; Meisen, Tobias; Abrahamsson, Pekka; Mohanani, Rahul

Parent publication: IWSiB '24 : Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Software-intensive Business

Conference:

Place and date of conference: Lisbon, Portugal, 16.4.2024

ISBN: 979-8-4007-0571-7

Publication year: 2024

Publication date: 26/08/2024

Pages range: 24-31

Number of pages in the book: 87

Publisher: ACM

Place of Publication: New York

Publication country: United States

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3643690.3648238

Publication open access: Openly available

Publication channel open access: Partially open access channel

Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/96930

Abstract

The ethical impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are causing concern in many areas of AI research and development. The implementation of AI ethics is still, in many ways, a work in progress, but various initiatives are tackling the issues by creating guidelines and implementation methods. This study investigates concerns about the negative impacts of AI systems posed by researchers working with AI. The study was conducted as a scenario-based survey, in which participants answered the question, "What could go wrong?" regarding five scenarios depicting fictional AI systems. The study concludes with the results from 33 survey participants who gave 161 responses to the scenarios. The results suggest that researchers can identify threats posed by AI systems, particularly regarding their social and ethical consequences. This is even though half of the participants reported limited involvement with AI ethics in their work. The widespread understanding of ethics among researchers could positively impact AI software development due to increased capabilities to bring theoretical AI ethics to practice.

Keywords: artificial intelligence; effects (results); scenarios; ethics; ethicality; researchers; qualitative research; survey research

Free keywords: artificial intelligence; AI ethics; AI impacts; qualitative study; survey

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Ministry reporting: Yes

VIRTA submission year: 2024

Preliminary JUFO rating: 1