Technofixing the Future: Ethical Side Effects of Using AI and Big Data to meet the SDGs

Mark Ryan; Josephina Antoniou; Laurence Brooks; Tilimbe Jiya; Kevin  Macnish; Bernd Stahl

doi:10.1109/SmartWorld-UIC-ATC-SCALCOM-IOP-SCI.2019.00101

Technofixing the Future: Ethical Side Effects of Using AI and Big Data to meet the SDGs

Mark Ryan^*
, Josephina Antoniou
, Laurence Brooks
, Tilimbe Jiya
, Kevin Macnish
, Bernd Stahl

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE SmartWorld Smart City Innovation Conference
Publisher	IEEE Xplore
Pages	335-341
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	9781728140346
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartWorld-UIC-ATC-SCALCOM-IOP-SCI.2019.00101
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2019
Event	5th IEEE Smart World Congress 2019 - De Monfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom Duration: 19 Aug 2019 → 23 Aug 2019

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Name	Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE SmartWorld Smart City Innovation Conference

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Conference	5th IEEE Smart World Congress 2019
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Leicester
Period	19/08/19 → 23/08/19

Keywords

Artificial intelligence
Big data
Sustainable development goals
Ethics
Smart information systems

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Ryan, M., Antoniou, J., Brooks, L., Jiya, T., Macnish, K., & Stahl, B. (2019). Technofixing the Future: Ethical Side Effects of Using AI and Big Data to meet the SDGs. In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE SmartWorld Smart City Innovation Conference (pp. 335-341). (Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE SmartWorld Smart City Innovation Conference). IEEE Xplore. https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartWorld-UIC-ATC-SCALCOM-IOP-SCI.2019.00101

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Ryan, M, Antoniou, J, Brooks, L, Jiya, T, Macnish, K & Stahl, B 2019, Technofixing the Future: Ethical Side Effects of Using AI and Big Data to meet the SDGs. in Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE SmartWorld Smart City Innovation Conference. Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE SmartWorld Smart City Innovation Conference, IEEE Xplore, pp. 335-341, 5th IEEE Smart World Congress 2019, Leicester, United Kingdom, 19/08/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartWorld-UIC-ATC-SCALCOM-IOP-SCI.2019.00101

Technofixing the Future: Ethical Side Effects of Using AI and Big Data to meet the SDGs. / Ryan, Mark; Antoniou, Josephina; Brooks, Laurence et al.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE SmartWorld Smart City Innovation Conference. IEEE Xplore, 2019. p. 335-341 (Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE SmartWorld Smart City Innovation Conference).

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