Responsible Artificial Intelligence

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Virginia Dignum

   Pages 1-7

3. What Is Artificial Intelligence?

   • Virginia Dignum

   Pages 9-34

4. Ethical Decision-Making

   • Virginia Dignum

   Pages 35-46

5. Taking Responsibility

   • Virginia Dignum

   Pages 47-69

6. Can AI Systems Be Ethical?

   • Virginia Dignum

   Pages 71-92

7. Ensuring Responsible AI in Practice

   • Virginia Dignum

   Pages 93-105

8. Looking Further

   • Virginia Dignum

   Pages 107-120

9. Back Matter

   Pages 121-127

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In this book, the author examines the ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence systems as they integrate and replace traditional social structures in new sociocognitive-technological environments. She discusses issues related to the integrity of researchers, technologists, and manufacturers as they design, construct, use, and manage artificially intelligent systems; formalisms for reasoning about moral decisions as part of the behavior of artificial autonomous systems such as agents and robots; and design methodologies for social agents based on societal, moral, and legal values. 

• Artificial intelligence (AI)
• Morality
• Decision systems
• Ethics
• Human enhancement technologies
• Artificially intelligent systems
• Artificial autonomous systems
• Robots
• Social agents
• Societal Values
• Moral values
• Legal values

“The book claims to be suitable for undergraduate students, and interested and concerned researchers, practitioners, and citizens. It will serve these audiences well but would be of equal benefit and importance to policymakers and those making decisions about adopting AI technology who might otherwise be focused on a narrower functional perspective. … Highly recommended for all.” (Nicolas E. Gold, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Vol. 22, 2021)

“Responsible Artificial Intelligence is a valuable contribution to the debate about AI … at the level of building principled, responsible AI systems, and the use of these systems. The further reading which the book suggests complements this technical monograph with accessible contributions about the nature and future of AI. … If you want to know how a vision for responsible AI systems in the European fashion can be built from values, read this book.” (Neil Yorke-Smith, Prometheus, September, 2020)

• Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

  Virginia Dignum

Virginia Dignum is a Professor in the Dept. of Computing Science of Umeå University, where she leads the Social and Ethical Artificial Intelligence research group. Prior to that she was an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology. She received a PhD in 2004 from Utrecht University, before that she worked for 12 years in consultancy and system development in the areas of expert systems and knowledge management. Her research focuses on the complex interconnections and interdependencies between people, organizations, and technology.