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A Concept of Balance of Interest in the Context of Active Assisted Living 主动辅助生活中利益平衡的概念
Pub Date : 2023-11-09 DOI: 10.1007/s44206-023-00080-0
Maksymilian Michał Kuźmicz
Abstract This paper explores the concept of balancing interests within the context of Active Assisted Living (AAL). AAL technologies hold great promise for addressing the care and support needs of older adults. However, they also raise ethical and social considerations that necessitate a careful balance of interests among various stakeholders. The objective of this study is to comprehensively examine the notion of balance shedding light on its multifaceted dimensions and discuss practical implications for the AAL. Drawing on a thorough literature review and interdisciplinary insights, the research unfolds in three stages. First, it recognizes four key dimensions of balance: equilibrium, avoidance of extremes, proportion, and compromise. Subsequently, the study explores arguments both in favor of and against balancing, addressing issues such as absolute values, methodological concerns, benefits of imbalances, and alternative approaches. This examination offers a comprehensive perspective on the complexities surrounding the concept of balance. Finally, the paper investigates the implications of the conceptual framework within the AAL context, examining what the process of balancing interests could mean from this perspective.
摘要本文探讨了主动辅助生活(AAL)背景下的利益平衡概念。AAL技术在解决老年人的护理和支持需求方面具有很大的前景。然而,它们也引起了道德和社会方面的考虑,需要在各种利益相关者之间谨慎地平衡利益。本研究的目的是全面考察平衡的概念,揭示其多方面,并讨论对AAL的实际意义。通过全面的文献回顾和跨学科的见解,本研究分为三个阶段。首先,它认识到平衡的四个关键维度:平衡、避免极端、比例和妥协。随后,该研究探讨了支持和反对平衡的论点,解决了诸如绝对值、方法论问题、不平衡的好处和替代方法等问题。这一检查提供了一个全面的角度来看待围绕平衡概念的复杂性。最后,本文探讨了AAL背景下概念框架的含义,从这个角度审视了利益平衡的过程可能意味着什么。
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Auditing of AI: Legal, Ethical and Technical Approaches 人工智能审计:法律、道德和技术途径
Pub Date : 2023-11-08 DOI: 10.1007/s44206-023-00074-y
Jakob Mökander
Abstract AI auditing is a rapidly growing field of research and practice. This review article, which doubles as an editorial to Digital Society’s topical collection on ‘Auditing of AI’, provides an overview of previous work in the field. Three key points emerge from the review. First, contemporary attempts to audit AI systems have much to learn from how audits have historically been structured and conducted in areas like financial accounting, safety engineering and the social sciences. Second, both policymakers and technology providers have an interest in promoting auditing as an AI governance mechanism. Academic researchers can thus fill an important role by studying the feasibility and effectiveness of different AI auditing procedures. Third, AI auditing is an inherently multidisciplinary undertaking, to which substantial contributions have been made by computer scientists and engineers as well as social scientists, philosophers, legal scholars and industry practitioners. Reflecting this diversity of perspectives, different approaches to AI auditing have different affordances and constraints. Specifically, a distinction can be made between technology-oriented audits, which focus on the properties and capabilities of AI systems, and process-oriented audits, which focus on technology providers’ governance structures and quality management systems. The next step in the evolution of auditing as an AI governance mechanism, this article concludes, should be the interlinking of these available—and complementary—approaches into structured and holistic procedures to audit not only how AI systems are designed and used but also how they impact users, societies and the natural environment in applied settings over time.
人工智能审计是一个快速发展的研究和实践领域。这篇评论文章是数字社会关于“人工智能审计”的专题合集的社论,概述了该领域以前的工作。回顾中出现了三个关键点。首先,当前对人工智能系统进行审计的尝试可以从财务会计、安全工程和社会科学等领域的审计结构和实施方式中学到很多东西。其次,政策制定者和技术提供商都有兴趣推动审计作为一种人工智能治理机制。因此,学术研究人员可以通过研究不同人工智能审计程序的可行性和有效性来发挥重要作用。第三,人工智能审计本质上是一项多学科工作,计算机科学家和工程师以及社会科学家、哲学家、法律学者和行业从业者都对此做出了重大贡献。反映这种观点的多样性,不同的人工智能审计方法具有不同的支持和约束。具体来说,可以区分面向技术的审计和面向过程的审计,前者侧重于人工智能系统的属性和能力,后者侧重于技术提供商的治理结构和质量管理系统。本文的结论是,审计作为人工智能治理机制发展的下一步应该是将这些可用和互补的方法相互联系到结构化和整体的程序中,不仅要审计人工智能系统的设计和使用方式,还要审计它们在应用环境中如何随着时间的推移影响用户、社会和自然环境。
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Automated Content Writing Tools and the Question of Objectivity 自动化内容写作工具和客观性问题
Pub Date : 2023-11-08 DOI: 10.1007/s44206-023-00082-y
Federica Russo
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Norms for Academic Writing in the Era of Advanced Artificial Intelligence 高级人工智能时代的学术写作规范
Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI: 10.1007/s44206-023-00079-7
Simon Friederich, Jonathan Symons
Abstract If and when artificial intelligence systems become superhuman in more aspects of analytic reasoning, this will inevitably have a strong impact on the social organisation of science, including academic writing, reviewing, and publishing. We consider how norms of academic publishing should be adjusted as this happens. To do so, we propose four intuitively plausible desiderata that norms of academic publishing should fulfil in the age of increasingly advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and argue that there are no “quick fixes” to current norms that fulfil these desiderata. To indicate the scale of change needed to prepare academic publishing for the era of increasingly advanced AI, we tentatively sketch a more promising novel system of norms. Our proposal centres around the idea that AI systems should “sign off’’ on statements that outline the human and AI contributions to academic research. We discuss possible challenges for this proposal and highlight the type of technological and regulatory infrastructure that would be needed to enable it.
当人工智能系统在分析推理的更多方面超越人类时,这将不可避免地对科学的社会组织产生强烈影响,包括学术写作、评审和出版。我们考虑在这种情况下,学术出版规范应该如何调整。为此,我们提出了在日益先进的人工智能(AI)时代,学术出版规范应该满足的四个直观上看似合理的愿望,并认为目前的规范没有“快速修复”来满足这些愿望。为了表明为日益先进的人工智能时代准备学术出版所需的变化规模,我们暂时勾勒出一个更有前途的新规范体系。我们的提议围绕着这样一个想法:人工智能系统应该“签署”概述人类和人工智能对学术研究贡献的声明。我们讨论了该提案可能面临的挑战,并强调了实现该提案所需的技术和监管基础设施类型。
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Making AI’s Impact on Pathology Visible: Using Ethnographic Methods for Ethical and Epistemological Insights 使人工智能对病理学的影响可见:使用民族志方法进行伦理和认识论见解
Pub Date : 2023-10-27 DOI: 10.1007/s44206-023-00072-0
Megan M. Milota, Jojanneke M. T. M. Drogt, Karin R. Jongsma
Abstract The field of pathology is currently undergoing fundamental changes, including the transition from analog to digital workspaces and the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into digital diagnostic workflows. Discussing the ethical implications of these changes is complicated by the fact that both laypersons and medical professionals know relatively little about the ways pathologists conduct their daily work. To reveal the largely ‘invisible’ daily practices of pathology departments and better understand the ongoing processes of innovation within the field, we employed a variety of ethnographic methods: interviews, participant observations, and ethnographic filming. Approaching AI in pathology through three different angles helped us to gain rich knowledge and meaningful insights about the ways AI should impact pathologists’ and lab technicians’ roles and responsibilities. In this article, we describe the benefits and downsides of our ‘slow approach’ to data collection and invite those working on similar topics involving the complex dynamics of digital transitions to reflect on whether such methods might also benefit their research.
病理学领域目前正在经历根本性的变化,包括从模拟到数字工作空间的过渡以及人工智能(AI)与数字诊断工作流程的集成。讨论这些变化的伦理含义是复杂的,因为外行人和医学专业人员对病理学家进行日常工作的方式都知之甚少。为了揭示病理部门在很大程度上“不可见”的日常实践,并更好地了解该领域内正在进行的创新过程,我们采用了各种民族志方法:访谈、参与者观察和民族志拍摄。通过三个不同的角度来研究病理学中的人工智能,有助于我们获得丰富的知识和有意义的见解,了解人工智能应该如何影响病理学家和实验室技术人员的角色和责任。在本文中,我们描述了我们的“缓慢方法”在数据收集方面的好处和缺点,并邀请那些从事涉及数字转型复杂动态的类似主题的研究人员反思这些方法是否也可能有利于他们的研究。
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Human-Curated Validation of Machine Learning Algorithms for Health Data 健康数据机器学习算法的人工策划验证
Pub Date : 2023-10-19 DOI: 10.1007/s44206-023-00076-w
Magnus Boman
Abstract Validation of machine learning algorithms that take health data as input is analysed, leveraging on an example from radiology. A 2-year study of AI use in a university hospital and a connected medical university indicated what was often forgotten by human decision makers in the clinic and by medical researchers. A nine-item laundry list that does not require machine learning expertise to use resulted. The list items guide stakeholders toward complete validation processes and clinical routines for bias-aware, sound, energy-aware and efficient data-driven reasoning for health. The list can also prove useful to machine learning developers, as a list of minimal requirements for successful implementation in the clinic.
摘要以放射学为例,分析了以健康数据为输入的机器学习算法的验证。一项对大学医院和相关医科大学的人工智能使用情况进行的为期两年的研究表明,诊所的人类决策者和医学研究人员经常忘记这一点。结果是一个不需要机器学习专业知识就能使用的九项清单。清单项目指导利益攸关方进行完整的验证程序和临床程序,以实现有偏见意识的、健全的、有能量意识的和有效的数据驱动的健康推理。该列表也可以证明对机器学习开发人员有用,作为在诊所成功实施的最低要求列表。
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Virtual Sovereignty: Examining the Legal Status of Micronations in Cyberspace Through the Case of the Republic of Errant Menda Lerenda 虚拟主权:以误入歧途的门达·莱伦达共和国为例考察微国家在网络空间中的法律地位
Pub Date : 2023-10-18 DOI: 10.1007/s44206-023-00067-x
Alesia Zhuk
Abstract This paper examines the legal status of micronations claiming virtual sovereignty in cyberspace, using the case of the Republic of Errant Menda Lerenda (REML) as an example. The REML is a micronation that claims to have virtual sovereignty over a network of individuals who share its values and beliefs. Through an in-depth analysis of existing literature and sources, this paper explores the legal implications of virtual sovereignty and the challenges that micronations face in establishing legitimacy in the international community. The paper concludes that while the lack of recognition of virtual states by the international community limits their ability to engage in formal relations with other states, virtual sovereignty raises important questions about the concept of statehood in the digital age. This paper suggests that further research is needed to explore the legal and practical implications of virtual sovereignty and to develop new frameworks for determining the legitimacy of virtual states.
摘要本文以误入门达莱伦达共和国(REML)为例,探讨了在网络空间中主张虚拟主权的微型国家的法律地位。REML是一个微型国家,声称对分享其价值观和信仰的个人网络拥有虚拟主权。通过对现有文献和资料的深入分析,本文探讨了虚拟主权的法律含义以及微型国家在国际社会中建立合法性所面临的挑战。本文的结论是,虽然国际社会对虚拟国家的不承认限制了它们与其他国家建立正式关系的能力,但虚拟主权提出了关于数字时代国家地位概念的重要问题。本文认为,需要进一步研究虚拟主权的法律和实践意义,并制定确定虚拟国家合法性的新框架。
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Cyber Micronations and Digital Sovereignty 网络微国家和数字主权
Pub Date : 2023-10-17 DOI: 10.1007/s44206-023-00069-9
Harry Hobbs, Philip Hayward, Robert Motum
Abstract The Internet has spurred the development of thousands of virtual nations. Located entirely online, these micronations claim sovereignty over vast stretches of cyberspace and engage in performative rituals of statehood. They draft constitutions, compose national anthems, sell citizenship, and sometimes, confuse or confound ordinary people. What are these entities and why do their founders and proponents purport to be a state? What legal and ethical challenges do cyber micronations provoke, and how do they challenge orthodox conceptions of the state? This brief communication considers these questions.
互联网推动了成千上万个虚拟国家的发展。这些微型国家完全位于网络上,宣称对广大网络空间拥有主权,并参与国家地位的表演仪式。他们起草宪法,编写国歌,出售公民权,有时还迷惑或迷惑普通人。这些实体是什么,为什么它们的创始人和支持者声称是一个国家?网络微型国家引发了哪些法律和道德挑战?它们如何挑战传统的国家观念?本简短的来文考虑了这些问题。
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Capturing Human Environmental DNA: Ethical Challenges 捕捉人类环境DNA:伦理挑战
Pub Date : 2023-10-16 DOI: 10.1007/s44206-023-00077-9
Nina F. de Groot
Abstract In May 2023, it was reported that human genomic information can be captured relatively easy and inadvertently from environmental samples, such as air or water. Humans, as well as all other organisms, shed fragments of DNA continuously. There is a large variety of potential applications of such environmental DNA, for instance in biology, but also for criminal justice purposes. However, capturing human DNA from such environmental sources raises ethical issues. This article explores some key ethical issues of human environmental DNA, in particular those revolving around consent, privacy, commodification, and the possibility of genetic surveillance. The article suggests that insights from the digital data protection debate, in particular non-individual-based approaches to data control and governance, can be a valuable starting point for evaluating the ethical, legal, and policy aspects of human environmental DNA. As we leave genetic traces everywhere (just as we also leave digital traces everywhere online), seeking individual control over all of that information seems not only practically hardly possible, but also ethically problematic. Therefore, we need new approaches on how best to articulate and address the challenges that novel genetic information processing techniques bring about. Approaches and concepts from the online digital data debate, such as group privacy and predictive privacy, can offer a valuable way forward to think about how to effectively deal with the complex issues that human environmental DNA raises.
2023年5月,有报道称,人类基因组信息可以相对容易地从空气或水等环境样本中不经意地捕获。人类和所有其他生物一样,会不断地脱落DNA片段。这种环境DNA有各种各样的潜在应用,例如在生物学上,但也用于刑事司法目的。然而,从这样的环境中获取人类DNA引发了伦理问题。本文探讨了人类环境DNA的一些关键伦理问题,特别是那些围绕同意、隐私、商品化和基因监控可能性的问题。本文认为,从数字数据保护辩论中获得的见解,特别是非基于个人的数据控制和治理方法,可以成为评估人类环境DNA的伦理、法律和政策方面的一个有价值的起点。由于我们到处留下基因的痕迹(就像我们在网上到处留下数字痕迹一样),寻求个人对所有这些信息的控制似乎不仅几乎不可能,而且在道德上也存在问题。因此,我们需要新的方法,如何最好地阐明和解决新的遗传信息处理技术带来的挑战。来自在线数字数据辩论的方法和概念,如群体隐私和预测隐私,可以为思考如何有效处理人类环境DNA提出的复杂问题提供有价值的方法。
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Justice and Empowerment Through Digital Health: Ethical Challenges and Opportunities 通过数字健康实现正义和赋权:伦理挑战与机遇
Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.1007/s44206-023-00075-x
Philip J. Nickel, Iris Loosman, Lily Frank, Anna Vinnikova
Abstract The proposition that digital innovations can put people in charge of their health has been accompanied by prolific talk of empowerment. In this paper we consider ethical challenges and opportunities of trying to achieve justice and empowerment using digital health initiatives. The language of empowerment can misleadingly suggest that by using technology, people can control their health and take responsibility for health outcomes to a greater degree than is realistic or fair. Also, digital health empowerment often primarily reaches people who already have high technological and health literacy, leaving others behind. We critically investigate whether the concept of health empowerment could be re-engineered to mean something different, namely the process of improving the health literacy and access of those who least possess it, in line with recent proposals for conceptual engineering in the service of justice. We settle on the weaker conclusion that underlying ethical values including justice should be used to interpret the existing concept of empowerment. To conclude, we take a high-level view of various strategies for achieving the ethical value associated with digital health empowerment.
数字创新可以让人们掌控自己的健康,这一主张一直伴随着关于赋权的大量讨论。在本文中,我们考虑的伦理挑战和机会,试图实现正义和授权使用数字健康倡议。赋予权力的语言可能误导性地暗示,通过使用技术,人们可以控制自己的健康,并在比现实或公平更大的程度上对健康结果负责。此外,数字健康赋权往往主要惠及已经具备高技术和健康素养的人,而将其他人抛在后面。我们批判性地调查了是否可以重新设计健康赋权的概念,使其具有不同的含义,即根据最近关于为司法服务的概念工程的建议,改善最不具备健康素养的人的健康素养和获得健康素养的过程。我们得出了一个较弱的结论,即包括正义在内的潜在伦理价值应该被用来解释现有的赋权概念。综上所述,我们对实现与数字健康赋权相关的伦理价值的各种策略进行了高层分析。
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