Russo, Federica and Schliesser, Eric and Wagemans, Jean H.M. (2022) Connecting ethics and epistemology of AI. [Preprint]

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Abstract

The need for fair and just AI is often related to the possibility of understanding AI itself, in other words, of turning an opaque box into a glass box, as inspectable as possible. Transparency and explainability, however, pertain to the technical domain and to philosophy of science, thus leaving the ethics and epistemology of AI largely disconnected. To remedy this, we propose an integrated approach premised on the idea that a glass-box epistemology should explicitly consider how to incorporate values and other normative considerations, such as intersectoral vulnerabilities, at critical stages of the whole process from design and implementation to use and assessment. To connect ethics and epistemology of AI, we perform a double shift of focus. First, we move from trusting the output of an AI system to trusting the process that leads to the outcome. Second, we move from expert assessment to more inclusive assessment strategies, aiming to facilitate expert and non-expert assessment. Together, these two moves yield a framework usable for experts and non-experts when they inquire into relevant epistemological and ethical aspects of AI systems. We dub our framework epistemology-cum-ethics to signal the equal importance of both aspects. We develop it from the vantage point of the designers: how to create the conditions to internalize values into the whole process of design, implementation, use, and assessment of an AI system, in which values (epistemic and non-epistemic) are explicitly considered at each stage and inspectable by every salient actor involved at any moment.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Russo, Federica Schliesser, Eric Wagemans, Jean H.M.
Additional Information:	Accepted for publication in AI & Society
Keywords:	Ethics of AI; Epistemology of AI; Explainability; Transparency; Model validation
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Artificial Intelligence > AI and Ethics General Issues > Ethical Issues General Issues > Science and Society
Depositing User:	Dr Federica Russo
Date Deposited:	09 Dec 2022 14:08
Last Modified:	09 Dec 2022 14:08
Item ID:	21528
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Artificial Intelligence > AI and Ethics General Issues > Ethical Issues General Issues > Science and Society
Date:	2022
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21528

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