Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy: On the Ethical Dimension of Recommender Systems.
Feasting on a plethora of social media platforms, news aggregators, and online marketplaces, recommender systems (RSs) are spreading pervasively throughout our daily online activities. Over the years, a host of ethical issues have been associated with the diffusion of RSs and the tracking and monito...
| Published in: | Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 819 - 833 |
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