Selected Ethical Issues in Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous System Development and Large Data Set Processing

Paweł Zgrzebnicki

doi:10.1515/sh-2017-0020

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Selected Ethical Issues in Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous System Development and Large Data Set Processing

Studia Humana

Volume 6 (2017): Issue 3 (July 2017)

By: Paweł Zgrzebnicki

Open Access

|Nov 2017

Abstract

Due to information technology development and its industrial adaptation, the dilemmas so far specific to philosophical speculations and science-fiction literature and films have become the real problems of the contemporary world. On one hand, these issues are related to an unprecedented scale on which computational algorithms are currently used as well as a level of complexity of mutual connections; on the other hand, these are linked to their autonomous behavior. States, industry, and users themselves demand formulation of understandable ethical categories and determination of transparency standards and legal norms for these algorithms’ functioning in the near future.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sh-2017-0020 | Journal eISSN: 2299-0518

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Language: English

Page range: 24 - 33

Published on: Nov 1, 2017

Published by: University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow

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Keywords:

artificial intelligence,

ethics,

industry,

autonomous systems,

algorithms

Related subjects:

Business and economics,

Political economics,

Political economics, other,

Mathematics,

Logic and set theory,

Philosophy,

Philosophy, other

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