Empirical Analysis of Ethical Principles Applied to Different AI Uses Cases.

Alfonso José López Rivero; M. Encarnación Beato; César Muñoz Martínez; Pedro Gonzalo Cortiñas Vázquez

doi:10.9781/ijimai.2022.11.006

Authors

Alfonso José López Rivero Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca
M. Encarnación Beato Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca
César Muñoz Martínez Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Pedro Gonzalo Cortiñas Vázquez Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.9781/ijimai.2022.11.006

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Ethical AI, Trust, Digital Transformation

Supporting Agencies

We would like to thank the experts in ethics at the Pontifical University of Salamanca, Dr. Marceliano Arranz Rodrigo, retired professor of the Faculty of Philosophy and Dr. Gonzalo Tejerina Arias, professor of the Faculty of Theology, for their contributions and comments on the design of the survey for data collection.

Abstract

In this paper, we present an empirical study on the perception of the ethical challenges of artificial intelligence groups in the classification made by the European Union (EU). The study seeks to identify the ethical principles that cause the greatest concern among the population, analyzing these characteristics among different actors. The main study analyses the difference between Information and Communications Technology (ICT) professionals and the rest of the population. Along with this study, we conducted a gender study; in addition, we studied differences between university students, classified as future professionals who can work in Artificial Intelligence, and other university students. We believe that this work is a starting point for an informed debate in the scientific community and industry on the ethical implications of artificial intelligence based on the classification of ethical principles made by the EU, which can be extrapolated to any analysis carried out on the use of data to apply them in algorithms based on Artificial Intelligence.

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