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Artificial Intelligence and Social Responsibility

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The text introduces basic concepts and problems of artificial intelligence and social responsibility under the perspective of robot ethics and machine ethics. It is composed of two sections. In Sect. 1 concerning the relation of artificial intelligence (further on abbreviated as AI) and social responsibility (further on abbreviated as SR), three things are summarized, namely, basic issues surrounding the topic in Sect. 1.1, important concepts and their relations in Sect. 1.2, and a note on the literature in Sect. 1.3. In Sect. 2 three groups of issues are presented, analyzed, and discussed, namely, AI and fundamental morality and ethics in terms of SR in Sect. 2.1, AI and general principles of SR in Sect. 2.2, AI and particular types of SR regarding particular stakeholder groups of AI and particular AI in Sect. 2.3, and AI and its social implications in Sect. 2.4.

Could a machine think? – Could it be in pain? – Well, is the human body to be called such a machine? It surely comes as close as possible to being such a machine. (Wittgenstein PI: 359)

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  1. Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Zagreb, Croatia

    Kristijan Krkač

  2. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Ivana Bračević

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  2. Social Responsibility Research Network http://www.srrnet.org

    Shahla Seifi

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    David Crowther

  2. University of Derby, Derby, UK

    Shahla Seifi

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Krkač, K., Bračević, I. (2021). Artificial Intelligence and Social Responsibility. In: Crowther, D., Seifi, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42465-7_41

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