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2022
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Discrimination in the age of artificial intelligence
Discrimination in the age of artificial intelligence
In this paper, I examine whether the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM) aggravates issues of discrimination as has been argued by several authors. For this purpose, I first take up the lively philosophical debate on discrimination and present my own definition of...
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Personal Name(s): | Heinrichs, Bert (Corresponding author) |
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Contributing Institute: |
Gehirn & Verhalten; INM-7 |
Published in: | AI & society, 37 (2022) S. 143–154 |
Imprint: |
London
Springer
2022
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DOI: |
10.1007/s00146-021-01192-2 |
Document Type: |
Journal Article |
Research Program: |
Neuroethics and Ethics of Information |
Link: |
OpenAccess |
Publikationsportal JuSER |
Please use the identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/30698 in citations.
In this paper, I examine whether the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM) aggravates issues of discrimination as has been argued by several authors. For this purpose, I first take up the lively philosophical debate on discrimination and present my own definition of the concept. Equipped with this account, I subsequently review some of the recent literature on the use AI/ADM and discrimination. I explain how my account of discrimination helps to understand that the general claim in view of the aggravation of discrimination is unwarranted. Finally, I argue that the use of AI/ADM can, in fact, increase issues of discrimination, but in a different way than most critics assume: it is due to its epistemic opacity that AI/ADM threatens to undermine our moral deliberation which is essential for reaching a common understanding of what should count as discrimination. As a consequence, it turns out that algorithms may actually help to detect hidden forms of discrimination. |