Ethics for sustainable artificial intelligence

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https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2022.806013

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Artificial intelligence, ethics, sustainability, responsibility, care

Abstract


The accelerated process of environmental degradation warns of a serious situation in which artificial intelligence (AI) cannot remain on the side-lines. The proposals of Aimee van Wynsbergue and Mark Coeckelbergh on an AI committed to environmental sustainability represent a first step to propose an alternative development of this disruptive technology. However, it is necessary to offer a theoretical foundation to propose a sustainable artificial intelligence (IAS). This foundation can originate in two ethical proposals familiar with responsibility and care. On the one hand, there is the ethics of responsibility of Hans Jonas; and, on the other, Carol Gilligan’s ethics of care and that of indigenous peoples, highly sensitive to nature.

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2022-12-30

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Terrones Rodríguez, A. L. . (2022). Ethics for sustainable artificial intelligence. Arbor, 198(806), a683. https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2022.806013

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