Researchers' Concerns on Artificial Intelligence Ethics: Results from a Scenario-Based Survey

Marianna Jantunen; Richard Meyes; Veronika Kurchyna; Tobias Meisen; Pekka Abrahamsson; Rahul Mohanani

doi:10.1145/3643690.3648238

Researchers' Concerns on Artificial Intelligence Ethics: Results from a Scenario-Based Survey

Marianna Jantunen, Richard Meyes, Veronika Kurchyna, Tobias Meisen, Pekka Abrahamsson, Rahul Mohanani

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The ethical impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are causing concern in many areas of AI research and development. The implementation of AI ethics is still, in many ways, a work in progress, but various initiatives are tackling the issues by creating guidelines and implementation methods. This study investigates concerns about the negative impacts of AI systems posed by researchers working with AI. The study was conducted as a scenario-based survey, in which participants answered the question, "What could go wrong?"regarding five scenarios depicting fictional AI systems. The study concludes with the results from 33 survey participants who gave 161 responses to the scenarios. The results suggest that researchers can identify threats posed by AI systems, particularly regarding their social and ethical consequences. This is even though half of the participants reported limited involvement with AI ethics in their work. The widespread understanding of ethics among researchers could positively impact AI software development due to increased capabilities to bring theoretical AI ethics to practice.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2024 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Software-Intensive Business, IWSiB 2024
Publisher	ACM
Pages	24-31
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	979-8-4007-0571-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3643690.3648238
Publication status	Published - 26 Aug 2024
Publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	International Workshop on Software-Intensive Business - Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 16 Apr 2024 → 3 May 2024

Conference

Conference	International Workshop on Software-Intensive Business
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Lisbon
Period	16/04/24 → 3/05/24

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AI ethics
AI impacts
artificial intelligence
qualitative study
survey

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Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)
Software
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Jantunen, M, Meyes, R, Kurchyna, V, Meisen, T, Abrahamsson, P & Mohanani, R 2024, Researchers' Concerns on Artificial Intelligence Ethics: Results from a Scenario-Based Survey. in Proceedings - 2024 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Software-Intensive Business, IWSiB 2024. ACM, pp. 24-31, International Workshop on Software-Intensive Business, Lisbon, Portugal, 16/04/24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643690.3648238

Researchers' Concerns on Artificial Intelligence Ethics: Results from a Scenario-Based Survey. / Jantunen, Marianna; Meyes, Richard; Kurchyna, Veronika et al.
Proceedings - 2024 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Software-Intensive Business, IWSiB 2024. ACM, 2024. p. 24-31.

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