Towards a Feminist Metaethics of AI

The proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has sparked an overwhelming number of AI ethics guidelines, boards and codes of conduct. These outputs primarily analyse competing theories, principles and values for AI development and deployment. However, as a series of recent problematic incidents about AI ethics/ethicists demonstrate, this orientation is insufficient. Before proceeding to evaluate other professions, AI ethicists should critically evaluate their own; yet, such an evaluation should be more explicitly and systematically undertaken in the literature. I argue that these insufficiencies could be mitigated by developing a research agenda for a feminist metaethics of AI. Contrary to traditional metaethics, which reflects on the nature of morality and moral judgements in a non-normative way, feminist metaethics expands its scope to ask not only what ethics is but also what our engagement with it should be like. Applying this perspective to the context of AI, I suggest that a feminist metaethics of AI would examine: (i) the continuity between theory and action in AI ethics; (ii) the real-life effects of AI ethics; (iii) the role and profile of those involved in AI ethics; and (iv) the effects of AI on power relations through methods that pay attention to context, emotions and narrative.Comment: In Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES' 22), August 1-3, 2022, Oxford, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 page

SAFECARE D7.2 Training Guide for Threat Response: Legal and Ethical Aspects for Healthcare Cybersecurity

As part of the SAFECARE Task 7.2 'Training guide for threat response', this presentation outlines ethical and legal frameworks concerning physical, cyber and integrated security in healthcare. The objective of this document is to give key informative notions on this issue for healthcare security practitioners and operators (including security operators, healthcare professionals, fire-fighters) which will take part in the project's pilot phases.status: Published onlin

Biobanking across Europe post-GDPR : a deliberately fragmented landscape

This chapter seeks to provide insight into the ways in which Member States leveraged the regulatory discretion afforded to them by the GDPR. Specifically, it reviews the biobank regulatory environment; whether and how derogations under Article 89(2) GDPR are enabled; the legal basis for scientific research and the role of consent in biobanking post-GDPR; the balance between individual rights and public interest in national law; and finally, the GDPR’s impact and future possibilities for biobanking. In exercising self-determination, Member States can, to a certain extent, align data protection requirements with their values and aspirations. Such alignment, though, could jeopardize collaborative research. In light of the need to bridge divergent legal and ethical requirements at a national and supranational level, the role of Research Ethics Committees (RECs) might prove to be essential