Grant, Anthony

McVay, Mark T.

Raymond, Chloe E.

Shields, Sean M.

English

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Habermas V0.1AbstractAuthor(s): Anthony Grant, Mark McVay, Chloe Raymond, Sean ShieldsAdvisors(s): Jonathan Boardman, Dr. Ying XieCP-110For this project, we created a web application that allows users to conduct ethical risk assessments for various proposed AI technologies. The application will allow businesses to create potential scenarios that may arise as a result of implementing these technologies and assess the potential ethical harms associated with these scenarios.ConclusionsResultsIntroductionOverall, we were able to create a dynamic web application and database thatcollects and stores user-created projects, use cases, scenarios and mitigations,as well as ethical harm assessment data. The web application implements aform that allows users to rate the severity and likelihood of various ethical harmsthat may occur for each created scenario. In addition, we created a commentsystem that allows users to share their thoughts and opinions on the projects,use cases, scenarios, and mitigations created by others. The application alsoutilizes an algorithm that aggregates users’ ethical harm assessment data anddisplays the data in the form of a chart.In conclusion, the Habermas web application can help businesses andindividuals analyze and discuss the potential ethical impacts various AItechnologies can have on society. It also allows users to collaborate on findingways to mitigate the harmful impacts associated with AI.Habermas is an online collaborative tool that allowsusers to evaluate the likelihood and severity of ethicalharms that could potentially arise in a given scenario.First, a user can create a project relating to AItechnology and then create intended and/orunintended use cases for that specific project. Theuser can then create potential scenarios that mayarise as a result of a particular use case and assessthe ethical risks of each scenario. Lastly, the user can create mitigations foreach scenario that can mitigate the severity of ethical harms that occur in thescenario.In order to create Habermas, we created a PHP-based website to allow forstoring and retrieving information in a database. The frontend of the website isbuilt using HTML and CSS. The database we used to store user information is aMySQLi-based database which allows for both procedural and object-orientedprogramming. The website and database are hosted using Windows Server.Provide references here.You can use the departmental logo instead of the college logo. The official logo policy is available athttp://styleguide.kennesaw.edu/logo-policy/unacceptable-variations.phpList of people/organizations who helped you with your work.Jonathan Boardman, for providing us with the background informationnecessary for designing and creating an ethical risk assessment toolDr. Ying Xie. for supporting and advising us during project developmentAnthony Grant – agrant74@students.kennesaw.eduMark McVay - mmcvay@students.kennesaw.eduChloe Raymond – craymon6@students.kennesaw.eduSean Shields – sshiel13@students.kennesaw.edu• How do we create a web application that is easy to use and allows for user collaboration?• How will we collect and store user opinions on ethical harms associated with a given scenario?• How will we utilize and present the data we collect?Research Question(s)Materials and MethodsAcknowledgmentsContact InformationReferencesFigure 1: Index page of the Habermas websiteFigure 2: Excerpt of the Habermas ethical harm assessment formFigure 3: Chart displaying aggregated ethical harm assessment data for two different scenarios

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