Marcelo Mendoza launches joint book with Gabriela Arriagada and Claudia Lopez on Ethics in AI and Information Technologies

Gabriela Arriagada Bruneau is an assistant professor with dual affiliation at the Institutes of Applied Ethics (IEA) and Mathematical and Computational Engineering (IMC) of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a young researcher at the National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA).

Claudia López works as an assistant professor at the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María in Valparaíso, Chile. She is also a principal investigator at CENIA and the Millennium Nucleus on the Futures of Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR).

Marcelo Mendoza is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is a senior researcher at CENIA and a research associate at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD).

The book entitled: Ethics in Artificial Intelligence and Information Technologies .

Authors: Gabriela Arriagada-Bruneau - Claudia López - Marcelo Mendoza

According to the published description behind the book, this text addresses the challenges posed by the adoption and development of new artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and how they impact People. The ethics, scope and impact of the technology on People are key issues. The book begins with the ethical aspects of AI, presenting a sociotechnical approach to integrating ethics into AI projects, and describes perspectives around feminism, sustainability, and labor transformation.

Next, the concepts of fairness, accountability and transparency are introduced, discussing their implications in the development of information systems such as recommender systems, including aspects related to data privacy. Next, the book covers the relevance of natural language processing systems, highlighting strategies for reducing bias and evaluation methodologies.

The scope of fairness-based approaches to ChatGPT and other text generative models is also presented. Finally, advanced topics including the relationship between AI and misinformation are addressed, including a discussion of the scope of generative news models such as deepfakes. The book concludes with a discussion of the prospects and challenges in the area.

This book is intended for advanced UNDERGRADUATE and graduate students in all disciplines related to information systems. It is also useful for researchers and professionals interested in the subject.

Invitation from the authors

Marcelo Mendoza: "It is a book with an interdisciplinary approach to ethics and artificial intelligence. It proposes a conceptual framework to address the development of AI integrating ethics, conceptualizes AI systems as socio-technical systems and defines the main threats linked to AI. In this regard, it addresses methodological aspects that enable the development of safe AI and reviews the progress of policy and regulatory approaches to AI globally. It is a book written from Chile but with a global perspective, ideal for researchers, students and developers of AI solutions".

Gabriela Arriagada: "What kind of future do we want to build with artificial intelligence?

Ethics in Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology is an essential work for anyone wishing to understand, anticipate, and respond to the ethical dilemmas emerging in a world increasingly mediated by algorithms. With a rigorous yet accessible approach, this book examines how AI is transforming fields such as education, justice, communication, work, privacy, and automated decision making.

This book proposes a critical review of the contemporary challenges posed by the use of AI in society. From a sociotechnical and interdisciplinary perspective, it addresses key concepts such as equity, transparency, accountability, sustainability, data governance, misinformation, and algorithmic biases. Emerging approaches such as data feminism, design justice, and explanatory ethics (XAI) are also explored, applied to real systems such as ChatGPT, generative image models, and recommender systems.

This book is intended for UNDERGRADUATE and graduate students as well as professionals in law, engineering, philosophy, social sciences and computer science. It is also a valuable tool for teachers, researchers and policy makers seeking to integrate ethical principles into the research, development and implementation of digital technologies.

Because it is not enough to know what AI can do; we need to discuss what it should do.

This book provides the frameworks, tools, and examples needed to critically rethink the role of artificial intelligence in our lives and collectively decide where we want to go."

Where to buy it, go to the following link: https://www.routledge.com/Ethics-in-Artificial-Intelligence-and-Information-Technologies/Arriagada-Bruneau-Lopez-Mendoza/p/book/9781032594187

Source: Department of Computer Science, Universidad Católica de Chile.