scholarly journals Management perspective of ethics in artificial intelligence

AI and Ethics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josef Baker-Brunnbauer
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Central Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Management Perspective ◽  
Moral Ethics ◽  
Start Ups

AbstractThis research addressed the management awareness about the ethical and moral aspects of artificial intelligence (AI). It is a general trend to speak about AI, and many start-ups and established companies are communicating about the development and implementation of AI solutions. Therefore, it is important to consider different perspectives besides the technology and data as the key elements for AI systems. The way in which societies are interacting and organising themselves will change. Such transformations require diverse perspectives from the society and particularly from AI system developers for shaping the humanity of the future. This research aimed to overcome this barrier with the answers for the question: What kind of awareness does the management of AI companies have about the social impact of its AI product or service? The central research question was divided into five sub-questions that were answered by a fundamental literature review and an empirical research study. This covered the management understanding of the terms moral, ethics, and artificial intelligence; the internal company prioritization of moral and ethics; and the involved stakeholders in the AI product or service development. It analysed the known and used ethical AI guidelines and principles. In the end, the social responsibility of the management regarding AI systems was analysed and compared.

The Deductive Research Question and Literature Review

2015 ◽  
pp. 14-32
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Research Question ◽  
The Social ◽  
Deductive Research

In this chapter, students will learn the process of developing a deductive research question. The social science process, and by virtue the methods that are employed as part of a research study, stem from the structure and nature of the research question. This chapter provides a step-by-step account of how to generate a scientifically valid deductive question. The concept and structuring of a hypothesis that is linked to a research question is also discussed. The second portion of the chapter is devoted to explaining how to complete a literature review that is relevant to your research question and hypothesis.

scholarly journals Putting graphic elicitation into practice: tools and typologies for the use of participant-led diagrams in qualitative research interviews

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 506-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Bravington ◽  
Nigel King
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Social World ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Common Elements ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Interviews ◽  
The Common ◽  
Year 2000

The use of diagrams to stimulate dialogue in research interviews, a technique known as graphic elicitation, has burgeoned since the year 2000. Reviews of the graphic elicitation literature have relied on the inconsistent terminology currently used to index visual methods, and have so far drawn only a partial picture of their use. Individual diagrams are seen as stand-alone tools, often linked to particular disciplines, rather than as images created from a toolbox of common elements which can be customized to suit a research study. There is a need to examine participant-led diagramming with a view to matching the common elements of diagrams with the objectives of a research project. This article aims to provide an overview of diagramming techniques used in qualitative data collection with individual participants, to relate the features of diagrams to the aspects of the social world they represent, and to suggest how to choose a technique to suit a research question.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social History ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Central Research ◽  
Dance Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dance Movements ◽  
History Of ◽  
Selection Of

This chapter defines the scope of the problem, and the central research question: Are there consistent patterns of political intent and impact in diverse public dance movements throughout the social history of the Americas? It surveys the existing literature from the fields of dance studies, anthropology, musicology, and cultural history. It lays out the argument, methodology, and disciplinary sources and explains the criteria for the selection of the specific case studies, linking the diversity of those case studies to the diversity of methodological tools necessary for their analysis and comparison.

Analogie e mimesi tra scienze computazionali e sociologia: l'Intelligenza Artificiale in Achille Ardigň

2009 ◽  
pp. 85-98
Author(s):  
Giovanni Boccia Artieri
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Artificial Culture ◽  
Sociocultural Change ◽  
Social System Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The One

- This essay is about the 80th-90th Italian sociological context when the second order cybernetic and the theory of the complexity introduced a new perspective. That context produced a convergence between social sciences and Artificial Intelligence (AI) theory. The paper focuses on 3 perspectives: 1. the sociocultural change: AI is a cultural approach that produces an imaginary about the mutation introduced by the informatic evolution. It opens people's concerns and hopes about the relation between "man" and cybernetic "machine". 2. The analogy between the theory that produces intelligence machines and the social system theory that thinks the society in an abstract and artificial way, by producing consequences on epistemological level and governance. 3. the social impact of the AI outputs in relational live and in the production of the reality. On the one hand the interest is about the Expert Systems that can support analytical and decision-making processes - here the risk is an emerging attitude to the abstract process rather then to the practices; on the other hand the interest is about two kinds of interactions: human-machine and human-machine-human.Keywords: Achille Ardigň, Artificial Intelligence, artificial culture, micromacro link, human-computer interaction, web 2.0.Parole chiave: Achille Ardigň, Intelligenza Artificiale, cultura dell'artificiale, micro-macro link, comunicazione uomo-macchina, web 2.0.

La Casa de Carlota: A Studio Where the Diversity Wins

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 350-362
Author(s):  
Nina Magomedova ◽  
Ramon Bastida-Vialcanet
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Down's Syndrome ◽  
Limited Liability ◽  
Down’S Syndrome ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
Start Up ◽  
The Social ◽  
Start Ups

This case is based on La Casa de Carlota (Carlota’s House), a limited liability company founded in 2013 and located in Barcelona. The company integrates a design studio and a professional communication agency and employs people with Down’s syndrome or autism. This case features the decision process followed by the two cofounders, José Maria Batalla and Sergi Capell, regarding the opportunity of growing, by either scaling up the activity of the company or replicating the model in other countries. The case describes the concerns that the entrepreneurs had to face in order to make a decision, such as the choice of funding sources in order to finance the growth, or the issues related to the hiring and managing of people with Down’s syndrome or autism. The case also describes the background of the entrepreneurs, the start-up, and the industry. The case introduces the students to the social entrepreneurship field and explains a business model that generates an important social impact. It also introduces a topic of start-ups’ scaling and growth, and different alternatives for financing them. The case sheds light on critical questions that social entrepreneurship students, scholars, investors, and authorities often pose.

scholarly journals PARTICIPATION AND SOCIAL CONNECTIONS IN A RECREATIONAL SENIOR SOFTBALL LEAGUE

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S535-S536
Author(s):  
Dawn S Tarabochia
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Opportunities ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Analyze Data

Abstract Senior only communities have long been an option for adults over a certain age. A variety of activities and clubs are often available to residents of these communities. The purpose of this research project was to understand the lived experience of recreational softball players regarding players decision to play senior softball and to determine what social opportunities were associated with recreational senior softball leagues. A phenomenological research study was constructed to seek further inquiry into two research questions associated with this project. Participants were members of a senior living community and members of a recreational senior softball league. Convenience and snowball sampling techniques were utilized, and 25 interviews were conducted. The interview transcripts were analyzed for phenomenological themes by the research team. The researchers used Van Manen’s (1990) hermeneutical approach to analyze data. Trustworthiness was established by the use of a peer reviewer to assess the themes for accuracy. Themes associated with the first research question indicate that interviewees participated in softball for a variety of reasons, including having played softball as a younger adult, wanting to maintain a level of physical fitness, and for the social connections that participation in a softball league provided. Themes associated with the second research question found that participants enjoyed many social benefits from playing softball, including informal and formal social opportunities. In conclusion, the willingness and opportunity to play senior softball provided older adults the ability to maintain a certain level of physical activity and to engage in meaningful social interactions.

scholarly journals Social impact of e-Government in urban marketing

2020 ◽  
Vol 338 ◽  
pp. 245-250
Author(s):  
Stefany Cevallos
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Service Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Policy Priority

The New Technologies of the Information and Communication (ICT) bet by a new model of city in function of the new social needs and the construction of an image for their own countries and the international arena. This research questions and describe the social impact of eGovernment in the construction of the cities to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Public management plays a fundamental role in the development of different programs in the field of the digitalization of services to generate viable solutions to improve the quality of life of its inhabitants. Urban marketing and the ICT are a fundamental support for these. Citizens, businesses, governments and employees are a policy priority because cities are key factors for the new industrial scenario to converge all segments of society for ICT deployment and use. In addition, the paper presents the progress on e-government service development to understand that social impacts on social groups within a community in advance of the decision making process such as quality of housing, local services, living environment, cultural and political inclination, transportation condition, etc.

scholarly journals 'She has to be Prepared to Improve Herself': Shaping Femininities in Transnational Marriage Agencies in Russia

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-370
Author(s):  
Petra Heyse
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Central Research ◽  
Representational Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Transnational Marriage ◽  
Discursive Positioning ◽  
Argumentative Strategies ◽  
Female Clients

Petra Heyse – Departement Taalkunde (IPrA Research Center), Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium. Email: [email protected] This article draws on a broader research project that scrutinizes online / offline representational practices on transnational matchmaking websites featuring so-called 'Russian brides'. The central research question is: how are recurrent online representations related to gender (in intersection with other identity categories) co-constructed in the daily interactions between matchmaking staff and female clients on the floor of a marriage agency. To these aims, the researcher conducted participant observation in a transnational marriage agency in a Russian city and used linguistic ethnographic methodologies. The analysis for this article concentrates on the routine argumentative strategies that are used by matchmaking personnel to legitimate their intermediating role to Russian-speaking female clients in the case agency on the basis of in-depth interviews with agency staff and female clients. The analysis of discursive positioning in interviews with translators and female clients sheds light on the social order that is discursively created. This order is functional in defining and reproducing the commercial dependencies between matchmaking staff and female clients in a transnational globalized industry. This study demonstrates the way in which: (a) matchmaking personnel in the case study constructs subject positions in discourse – i. e. of transnational matchmaking experts and of female clients – by drawing on commonsensical public discourses of difference that encompass gender, age and nationality, and (b) matchmaking personnel affiliates with its clients by conceiving the matchmaking approach as an increasingly popular genre of self-improvement for Russian-speaking women.

scholarly journals New Challenges for Ethics: The Social Impact of Posthumanism, Robots, and Artificial Intelligence

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Lourdes Velázquez G
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Conceptual Models ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Specific Expression ◽  
Spiritual Dimension ◽  
The Social ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
And Robotics

The ethical approach to science and technology is based on their use and application in extremely diverse fields. Less prominence has been given to the theme of the profound changes in our conception of human nature produced by the most recent developments in artificial intelligence and robotics due to their capacity to simulate an increasing number of human activities traditionally attributed to man as manifestations of the higher spiritual dimension inherent in his nature. Hence, a kind of contrast between nature and artificiality has ensued in which conformity with nature is presented as a criterion of morality and the artificial is legitimized only as an aid to nature. On the contrary, this essay maintains that artificiality is precisely the specific expression of human nature which has, in fact, made a powerful contribution to the progress of man. However, science and technology do not offer criteria to guide the practical and conceptual use of their own contents simply because they do not contain the conceptual space for the ought-to-be. Therefore, this paper offers a critical analysis of the conceptual models and the most typical products of technoscience as well as a discerning evaluation of the contemporary cultural trend of transhumanism. The position defended here consists of full appreciation of technoscience integrated into a broader framework of specifically human values.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document