Journal
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
Volume 178, Issue 4, Pages 961-976Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-022-05057-6
Keywords
Moral foundations; Artificial intelligence; Moral judgment; Ethical AI frameworks
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Organizations using AI need to consider ethical issues and align with individuals' moral foundations. Due to diverse moral perspectives, individual moral differences should be taken into account at multiple levels of AI.
Organizations are making massive investments in artificial intelligence (AI), and recent demonstrations and achievements highlight the immense potential for AI to improve organizational and human welfare. Yet realizing the potential of AI necessitates a better understanding of the various ethical issues involved with deciding to use AI, training and maintaining it, and allowing it to make decisions that have moral consequences. People want organizations using AI and the AI systems themselves to behave ethically, but ethical behavior means different things to different people, and many ethical dilemmas require trade-offs such that no course of action is universally considered ethical. How should organizations using AI-and the AI itself-process ethical dilemmas where humans disagree on the morally right course of action? Though a variety of ethical AI frameworks have been suggested, these approaches do not adequately address how people make ethical evaluations of AI systems or how to incorporate the fundamental disagreements people have regarding what is and is not ethical behavior. Drawing on moral foundations theory, we theorize that a person will perceive an organization's use of AI, its data procedures, and the resulting AI decisions as ethical to the extent that those decisions resonate with the person's moral foundations. Since people hold diverse moral foundations, this highlights the crucial need to consider individual moral differences at multiple levels of AI. We discuss several unresolved issues and suggest potential approaches (such as moral reframing) for thinking about conflicts in moral judgments concerning AI.
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