Can Machines Be Ethical? On the Necessity of Relational Ethics and Empathic Attunement for Data-Centric Technologies

• Autores: Jarrett Zigon
• Localización: Social research: An international quarterly of the social sciences, ISSN 0037-783X, Nº. 4, 2019 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Persons without Qualities: Algorithms, AI, and the Reshaping of Ourselves), págs. 1001-1022
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • There are good reasons why we are experiencing what I call an ethical demand made by the data-centric situation we now find ourselves in. Building on the phenomenological critique of artificial intelligence made by Hubert Dreyfus, this essay makes a critical phenomenological response to this ethical demand by arguing for what I call relational ethics. In contrast to the dominant data ethical arguments that call for the delineation of principles or rules, I argue that only if data-centric technologies were capable of empathic attunement could they legitimately be called ethical machines.