Ethics and privacy of artificial intelligence: Understandings from bibliometrics

Artificial intelligence (AI) and its broad applications are disruptively transforming the daily lives of human beings and a discussion of the ethical and privacy issues surrounding AI is a topic of growing interest, not only among academics but also the general public This review identifies the key entities (i.e., leading research institutions and their affiliated countries/regions, core research journals, and communities) that contribute to the research on the ethical and privacy issues in relation to AI and their intersections using co-occurrence analysis. Topic analyses profile the topical landscape of AI ethics using a topical hierarchical tree and the changing interest of society in AI ethics over time through scientific evolutionary pathways. We also paired 15 selected AI techniques with 17 major ethical issues and identify emerging ethical issues from a core set of the most recent articles published in Nature, Science, and Proceedings of the National Science Academy of the United States. These insights bridging the knowledge base of AI techniques and ethical issues in the literature, are of interest to the AI community and audiences in science policy, technology management, and public administration. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Artificial intelligence and its broad applications are transforming human lives disruptively, sparking growing interest in discussions on the ethical and privacy issues surrounding AI. This review identifies key entities and topics, presenting the landscape of AI ethics topics and emerging ethical issues from recent research.