Ethical framework for artificial intelligence and digital technologies

Ashok, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9827-9104, Madan, R., Joha, A. and Sivarajah, U. (2022) Ethical framework for artificial intelligence and digital technologies. International Journal of Information Management, 62. 102433. ISSN 0268-4012 doi: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102433

Abstract/Summary

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Digital technologies (DT) is proliferating a profound socio-technical transformation. Governments and AI scholarship have endorsed key AI principles but lack direction at the implementation level. Through a systematic literature review of 59 papers, this paper contributes to the critical debate on the ethical use of AI in DTs beyond high-level AI principles. To our knowledge, this is the first paper that identifies 14 digital ethics implications for the use of AI in seven DT archetypes using a novel ontological framework (physical, cognitive, information, and governance). The paper presents key findings of the review and a conceptual model with twelve propositions highlighting the impact of digital ethics implications on societal impact, as moderated by DT archetypes and mediated by organisational impact. The implications of intelligibility, accountability, fairness, and autonomy (under the cognitive domain), and privacy (under the information domain) are the most widely discussed in our sample. Furthermore, ethical implications related to the governance domain are shown to be generally applicable for most DT archetypes. Implications under the physical domain are less prominent when it comes to AI diffusion with one exception (safety). The key findings and resulting conceptual model have academic and professional implications.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/100786
Identification Number/DOI	10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102433
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Henley Business School > Digitalisation, Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Publisher	Elsevier
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