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Table 1 Phenomenon structure according to the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

From: Society in charge: the connection of artificial intelligence, responsibility, and ethics in German media discourse

 

Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ)

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ)

Moral and value-related actors

AI companies with an economic focus

AI companies with a normative will to shape the future

AI companies see themselves as saviors of the future

AI technology can take on a life of its own against ethical programming

AI companies and technology are economically oriented

AI technology cannot act ethically

Future shaping of values by non-European actors

People potentially acting against other people

Responsible Actors

Human actions justify AI consequences

Human tendency to abdicate responsibility

Humans required to take responsibility

Responsibilities for AI influence difficult to assign

questionable power of civil society and politics

Human actions cause AI consequences

Lack of social control options

Human tendency to abdicate responsibility

Responsibility of AI corporations difficult to assign

Humans needed as the final authority in AI decisions

EU, State and legal system as important players

Accepting and reflecting on responsibility as a society

Moral and value-related questions and consequences

Rationalistic social conditions due to AI

Unpredictable value-related consequences of AI development

Legal system with AI-induced rationalism

AI will increasingly elude control

Consequences of AI only to be seen in the future

Ethical reflection necessary in parallel with AI development

Socio-historical framework conditions

Digitalization promotes economic principles

Capitalism promotes economic principles

Lack of digital competence in society

AI emergence as a consequence of social change toward productivity

Demands for ethics contradict the realities