Why Teaching Ethics to AI Practitioners Is Important

Judy Goldsmith; Emanuelle Burton

doi:10.1609/aaai.v31i1.11139

Why Teaching Ethics to AI Practitioners Is Important

Authors

Judy Goldsmith University of Kentucky
Emanuelle Burton University of Kentucky

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v31i1.11139

Keywords:

ethics, teaching, pedagogy, utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics

Abstract

We argue that it is crucial to the future of AI that our students be trained in multiple complementary modes of ethical reasoning, so that they may make ethical design and implementation choices, ethical career decisions, and that their software will be programmed to take into account the complexities of acting ethically in the world.

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Published

2017-02-12

How to Cite

Goldsmith, J., & Burton, E. (2017). Why Teaching Ethics to AI Practitioners Is Important. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 31(1). https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v31i1.11139