TY - GEN
T1 - Technofixing the Future: Ethical Side Effects of Using AI and Big Data to meet the SDGs
AU - Ryan, Mark
AU - Antoniou, Josephina
AU - Brooks, Laurence
AU - Jiya, Tilimbe
AU - Macnish, Kevin
AU - Stahl, Bernd
PY - 2019/8/1
Y1 - 2019/8/1
N2 - While the use of smart information systems (the combination of AI and Big Data) offer great potential for meeting many of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), they also raise a number of ethical challenges in their implementation. Through the use of six empirical case studies, this paper will examine potential ethical issues relating to use of SIS to meet the challenges in six of the SDGs (2, 3, 7, 8, 11, and 12). The paper will show that often a simple “technofix”, such as through the use of SIS, is not sufficient and may exacerbate, or create new, issues for the development community using SIS.
AB - While the use of smart information systems (the combination of AI and Big Data) offer great potential for meeting many of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), they also raise a number of ethical challenges in their implementation. Through the use of six empirical case studies, this paper will examine potential ethical issues relating to use of SIS to meet the challenges in six of the SDGs (2, 3, 7, 8, 11, and 12). The paper will show that often a simple “technofix”, such as through the use of SIS, is not sufficient and may exacerbate, or create new, issues for the development community using SIS.
KW - Artificial intelligence
KW - Big data
KW - Sustainable development goals
KW - Ethics
KW - Smart information systems
U2 - 10.1109/SmartWorld-UIC-ATC-SCALCOM-IOP-SCI.2019.00101
DO - 10.1109/SmartWorld-UIC-ATC-SCALCOM-IOP-SCI.2019.00101
M3 - Conference Contribution
SN - 9781728140346
T3 - Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE SmartWorld Smart City Innovation Conference
SP - 335
EP - 341
BT - Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE SmartWorld Smart City Innovation Conference
PB - IEEE Xplore
T2 - 5th IEEE Smart World Congress 2019
Y2 - 19 August 2019 through 23 August 2019
ER -