What’s Economics Got to Do with It? Providing Theoretical Clarity on ELSA of AI.
While research in the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) has grown recently, the relationship between AI’s ethical and economic dimensions is under-researched. This is surprising, given the considerable investments in AI by Big Tech companies (e.g., Microsoft, META and IBM) and their ambiguous r...
| Publicado en: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 31; no. 6; pp. 1 - 28 |
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