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Implementing Ethics in AI: Initial Results of an Industrial Multiple Case Study

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly widespread in system development endeavors. As AI systems affect various stakeholders due to their unique nature, the growing influence of these systems calls for ethical considerations. Academic discussion and practical examples of autonomous system failures have highlighted the need for implementing ethics in software development. However, research on methods and tools for implementing ethics into AI system design and development in practice is still lacking. This paper begins to address this focal problem by providing elements needed for producing a baseline for ethics in AI based software development. We do so by means of an industrial multiple case study on AI systems development in the healthcare sector. Using a research model based on extant, conceptual AI ethics literature, we explore the current state of practice out on the field in the absence of formal methods and tools for ethically aligned design.

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    Google: AI Principles: https://www.blog.google/technology/ai/ai-principles/. IBM: Everyday ethics for AI: https://www.ibm.com/watson/assets/duo/pdf/everydayethics.pdf.

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    http://users.jyu.fi/~vimavakk/AIDevQuestionnaire.

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  1. University of Jyväskylä, PO Box 35, FI-40014, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Ville Vakkuri, Kai-Kristian Kemell & Pekka Abrahamsson

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  1. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

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  2. University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Tomi Männistö

  3. Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Silverio Martínez-Fernández

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Vakkuri, V., Kemell, KK., Abrahamsson, P. (2019). Implementing Ethics in AI: Initial Results of an Industrial Multiple Case Study. In: Franch, X., Männistö, T., Martínez-Fernández, S. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11915. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35333-9_24

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