Abstract
This paper is created on the wave of the ubiquitous and already saturated topic of ethics in the field of artificial intelligence. We were provoked by the proliferation of standards, rules, and regulations within this field and with posthumanism critique of this topic. We attempt to nurture a new framework for a social science analysis of How of ethics issues by providing argumentation for the study of algorithms and ethical issues by expanding the usability of the concept of niche construction and environmental perspective in ethnographic studies. From a design perspective, this means expanding the quest on the ethical matter by intensifying the inquiry perspective in a design that includes not just the design process — designer — but also a more comprehensive environment. Inspired by current trends in evolutionary science, biology, and anthropology, we are in line with those approaches that reaffirm ethical issues from standpoint theory. The goals are three-fold. Firstly, a direct answer to the program of developing research ethics based on ethnography that engages with the mundane emergent context where data are made, interpreted, analyzed, and mobilized in everyday practices. Secondly, we develop a different research framework from the “utilitarian perspective.” And third, to escape from the value neutrality „trap“ by restating our position and research framework in a post-humanistic research perspective on the issue of artificial intelligence.
Presenters
Pavle PavlovicStudent, PhD, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Austria
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Multiple Legacies: Heritage, Traditions, Local Ecologies, Knowledge, Values, Protection
KEYWORDS
Ethics, Werturteilsstreit, Niche construction, Ecology of practice, Ethnography, Algorithms
