Principles and Virtues in AI Ethics

作者：Paul Scherz · 发表于：Journal of Military Ethics · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1080/15027570.2024.2440195 · 被引用次数：4 · 研究领域：Ethics and Social Impacts of AI、Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education、Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations

One of the most common contemporary approaches for developing an ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) involves elaborating guiding principles. This essay explores the limitations of this approach, using the history of bioethics as a comparative case. The examples of bioethics and recent AI ethics suggest that principles are difficult to implement in everyday practice, fail to direct individual action, and can frequently result in a pure proceduralism. The essay encourages an additional attention to virtue, which forms the dispositions of actors, directs them to valued ends, and encourages right action in particular situation to complement principles. Practices and professions like medicine or warfighting that already have rich traditions of reflection on virtue ethics will be especially fruitful fields for developing an AI ethics of virtue.