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Who Deserves Protection, and Why It Matters In this third installment of our series on AI and ethics, we shift focus from moral agency to moral patienthood. Previously, we explored how AI might act as a moral agent – an entity capable of making choices with ethical significance. Now we ask a different question: which…
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In the first part of this series, we explored foundational moral philosophies – the theories and principles that help us distinguish right from wrong. Now we turn to the concept of moral agency, a key building block in ethics. Moral agency is about the capacity to make moral decisions and be held responsible for actions.…
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Bias in artificial intelligence refers to systematic errors or prejudices in AI systems that result in unfair outcomes. These biases can enter at various stages of an AI’s life cycle – from the data it learns from to the way the algorithm is designed or evaluated. In practical applications (e.g. healthcare, hiring, finance, law enforcement,…
