To Post or Not to Post: AI Ethics in the Age of Big Tech

To Post or Not to Post: AI Ethics in the Age of Big Tech

연구 분야: Artificial Intelligence

학회: Communications of the ACM, Volume 68, Issue 8

There are several different perceptions of the proper role of an ethicist. Three of the main ones are the roles of a) impartial observer, b) a guide to what is good or bad, or c) an agent of change. In this article, I argue that the first one is impossible, the second is insufficient, and the third is important but also highly complex. Using AI ethics and the social media platform Twitter/X (X from here on out) as an example, I explore the nature and scope of a potential duty to act on one’s own research findings as an ethicist. I argue that there is a case to be made for such a duty if an ethicist identifies and recognizes a technology’s harmful potential and wishes to avoid complicity and hypocrisy.