Implications of virtue Ethics On Some reasons of Ethical Evaluation

Concepts of Ethics and Their Application to AI

SpringerBriefs in Research and Innovation Governance - Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-69978-9_3 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 19-33

Author(s):

Bernd Carsten Stahl

Keyword(s):

Virtue Ethics ◽

Human Flourishing ◽

Ethical Evaluation ◽

Ai Ethics ◽

Profit Maximisation

AbstractAny discussion of the ethics of AI needs to be based on a sound understanding of the concept of ethics. This chapter therefore provides a brief overview of some of the key approaches to ethics with a particular emphasis on virtue ethics and the idea of human flourishing. The chapter reviews the purposes for which AI can be used, as these have a bearing on an ethical evaluation. Three main purposes are distinguished: AI forefficiency, optimisation and profit maximisation, AI forsocial control and AI for human flourishing. Given the focus on human flourishing in this book, several theoretical positions are introduced that provide insights into different aspects and ways of promoting human flourishing. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the currently widespread principle-based approach to AI ethics.

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The Production-Oriented Approach to the Ethical Criticism of Art

Artistic Creation and Ethical Criticism ◽

10.1093/oso/9780197507247.003.0003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 47-68

Author(s):

Ted Nannicelli

Keyword(s):

Virtue Ethics ◽

Virtue Epistemology ◽

Moral Agent ◽

Ethical Criticism ◽

General Argument ◽

Ethical Evaluation ◽

Conceptual Space ◽

Moral Agents ◽

In Virtue Of ◽

Oriented Approach

This chapter sketches the general argument for the production-oriented approach to the ethical criticism of art. It begins by noting that at least some artworks (of performance art, for example) are isomorphic with the actions by which they are created. Such artworks are open to ethical evaluation in the same way that any action of a moral agent is open to ethical appraisal. This clears the conceptual space for the production-oriented approach. The chapter goes on to show that the production-oriented approach has an advantage over the interpretation-oriented approaches advocated by Booth, Devereaux, and Gaut in virtue of its ability to assign praise or blame to real moral agents who are responsible for their artworks. The chapter then bolsters the rationale for the production-oriented approach by appealing to anti-empiricist arguments in the aesthetics literature before drawing upon an analogy to similar arguments in virtue ethics and virtue epistemology.

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