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Digital Ethics in the Age of AI - Navigating the ethical frontier today and beyond
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Digital Ethics in the Age of AI - Navigating the ethical frontier today and beyond

by Dr Julie E. Mehan
December 2024
Beginner to intermediate
250 pages
4h 21m
English
IT Governance Publishing
Content preview from Digital Ethics in the Age of AI - Navigating the ethical frontier today and beyond

CHAPTER 1: A DIGITAL WORLD AND ETHICS

“Ethics is the compass that guides artificial intelligence towards responsible and beneficial outcomes. Without ethical considerations, AI becomes a tool of chaos and harm.”1

Sri Amit Ray

The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics2 defined ethics this way: “Ethics is the bedrock upon which people build everything else. Good ethical relationships create trust, and trust is what every social institution relies upon. Without it, relationships fall apart, and if enough social relationships fall apart, one is no longer living in a society, but anarchy.”3

According to Aristotle, ethics is the examination of human relations in their most pure form or the science of proper behavior. He stated that ethics forms the ...

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