Ethical Problems of Contemporary AI

نوع مقاله : مقاله علمی- پژوهشی

نویسنده

Emeritus Professor at University College London, England

10.22034/jpiut.2025.21164

چکیده

Following the advances in AI produced by the deep learning revolution (2012 to present), AI now has a whole range of applications in industry and commerce. Unfortunately, many of these applications are widely considered to be morally wrong. This situation is illustrated by the example of deepfake pornography. Other examples are more nuanced and there is argument about whether they are morally wrong or not. This is illustrated by the example of targeted advertising which has been defended as acceptable. The arguments for and against targeted advertising are discussed. An account is given of an interesting experiment by Janet Vertesi in which she tried to keep her pregnancy a secret from marketing companies and ended up by being suspected of criminal activity. The conclusion is that targeted advertising is bad and should be abolished.

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عنوان مقاله [English]

Ethical Problems of Contemporary AI

نویسنده [English]

  • Donald Gillies
Emeritus Professor at University College London; England
چکیده [English]

Following the advances in AI produced by the deep learning revolution (2012 to present), AI now has a whole range of applications in industry and commerce. Unfortunately, many of these applications are widely considered to be morally wrong. This situation is illustrated by the example of deepfake pornography. Other examples are more nuanced and there is argument about whether they are morally wrong or not. This is illustrated by the example of targeted advertising which has been defended as acceptable. The arguments for and against targeted advertising are discussed. An account is given of an interesting experiment by Janet Vertesi in which she tried to keep her pregnancy a secret from marketing companies and ended up by being suspected of criminal activity. The conclusion is that targeted advertising is bad and should be abolished.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • AI
  • Ethical Problems
  • Deep Learning
  • Janet Vertesi
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Vertesi, J. (2014). My experiment opting out of big data made me look like a criminal, Time. May 1. (available online)
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