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Open AccessArtificial intelligence in support of the circular economy: ethical considerations and a path forward
The world’s current model for economic development is unsustainable. It encourages high levels of resource extraction, consumption, and waste that undermine positive environmental outcomes. Transitioning to a ...
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Open AccessThe AI gambit: leveraging artificial intelligence to combat climate change—opportunities, challenges, and recommendations
In this article, we analyse the role that artificial intelligence (AI) could play, and is playing, to combat global climate change. We identify two crucial opportunities that AI offers in this domain: it can h...
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Open AccessThe ethics of algorithms: key problems and solutions
Research on the ethics of algorithms has grown substantially over the past decade. Alongside the exponential development and application of machine learning algorithms, new ethical problems and solutions relat...
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App Store Governance: The Implications and Limitations of Duopolistic Dominance
Much focus of the emerging research front known as platform governance is concerned with content moderation and other ways in which platform companies govern users and activity on their own platforms, as well ...
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Open AccessAchieving a ‘Good AI Society’: Comparing the Aims and Progress of the EU and the US
Over the past few years, there has been a proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) strategies, released by governments around the world, that seek to maximise the benefits of AI and minimise potential har...
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Open Access‘AI for Social Good’: Whose Good and Who’s Good? Introduction to the Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence for Social Good
This introduction sets out the aims and scope of the Special Issue and provides an overview of each of the research articles and commentaries that follow.
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Open AccessThe Chinese approach to artificial intelligence: an analysis of policy, ethics, and regulation
In July 2017, China’s State Council released the country’s strategy for develo** artificial intelligence (AI), entitled ‘New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan’ (新一代人工智能发展规划). This strategy ...
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A definition, benchmark and database of AI for social good initiatives
Initiatives relying on artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver socially beneficial outcomes—AI for social good (AI4SG)—are on the rise. However, existing attempts to understand and foster AI4SG initiatives hav...
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A Unified Framework of Five Principles for AI in Society
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already having a major impact on society. As a result, many organizations have launched a wide range of initiatives to establish ethical principles for the adoption of socially ...
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Introduction
Some years in world history—1918, 1968, 2001—are so etched with meaning as to have become metonyms for the seismic events that occurred during them. To this list future historians will surely add 2020, a year ...
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Ethical Guidelines for SARS-CoV-2 Digital Tracking and Tracing Systems
The World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on 11th March 2020, recognising that the underlying SARS-CoV-2 has caused the greatest global crisis since World War II. In this chapter, we pr...
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The Ethics of Algorithms: Key Problems and Solutions
Research on the ethics of algorithms has grown substantially over the past decade. Alongside the exponential development and application of machine learning algorithms, new ethical problems and solutions relat...
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The Ethics of AI in Health Care: A Map** Review
This article presents a map** review of the literature concerning the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care. The goal of this review is to summarise current debates and identify open question...
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An Ethical Framework for a Good AI Society: Opportunities, Risks, Principles, and Recommendations
This article reports the findings of AI4People, a year-long initiative designed to lay the foundations for a “Good AI Society”. We introduce the core opportunities and risks of AI for society; present a synthe...
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The Chinese Approach to Artificial Intelligence: An Analysis of Policy, Ethics, and Regulation
In July 2017, China’s State Council released the country’s strategy for develo** artificial intelligence (AI), entitled ‘New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan’ (新一代人工智能发展规划). This strategy ...
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How to Design AI for Social Good: Seven Essential Factors
The idea of Artificial Intelligence for Social Good (henceforth AI4SG) is gaining traction within information societies in general and the AI community in particular. It has the potential to tackle social prob...
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Open AccessHow to Design AI for Social Good: Seven Essential Factors
The idea of artificial intelligence for social good (henceforth AI4SG) is gaining traction within information societies in general and the AI community in particular. It has the potential to tackle social prob...
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Historical Web as a Tool for Analyzing Social Change
This chapter discusses how the World Wide Web can be used as a resource for historians and social scientists. The web has existed for more than two decades and been used for many purposes, including as a sourc...
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Big Data Approaches to the Study of Digital Media
Recently there has been much excitement about using big data in social research, especially data derived from digital media. This chapter examines leading examples of this type of research from three platforms...
