Relational Approaches to Autonomous Systems Ethics

Relational Approaches to Autonomous Systems Ethics

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연구 분야: Artificial Intelligence

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학회: TAS '23: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems

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초록

Autonomous and/or Intelligent Systems (A/IS) are often conceptualised according to a model of autonomy characterised by an absence of interference, also called negative autonomy. What makes a system autonomous, according to this model, is the feature of independently giving a rule to oneself. Feminist critiques of autonomy, including relational critiques, challenge this negative model by drawing attention to the necessity of interdependence, connection, and entanglement. With that in mind, this paper explores how relational theories of autonomy help to speculate other futures for A/IS. It views A/IS not as discrete isolated individuals governed by negative liberty, but as interdependent, entangled constellations. Considering A/IS otherwise, not as self-prescribing, isolated nodes, but as vast constellations of material, philosophical and political realities, has far reaching consequences for an individualist ethics that holds only single discrete individuals accountable. This paper explores some of the ways in which this might be possible, through concept of relational autonomy, and semiotics.

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