New ethnographic perspective on relational ethics in the field of artificial intelligence

Pavlović, Pavle (author), Hafner-Fink, Mitja (author)

This article was created on the wave of the ubiquitous and already-saturated topic of ethics in the field of artificial intelligence. We were motivated by the proliferation of rules within this field and by a posthumanism critique of this topic. We attempt to nurture a new research platform for a social science analysis of the “How of ethics” issue by providing an argument for the study of algorithms and ethical issues by expanding the usability of the concept of niche construction and environmental perspectives in ethnographic studies. From a design perspective, this means expanding the quest related to the ethical matter by intensifying the inquiry in a design that includes not just the design process but also a more comprehensive environment. Inspired by current trends in evolutionary anthropology, science studies, and the philosophy of science, we are in line with approaches that reaffirm ethical issues from standpoint theory in the current scientific debate about trust in science. The results of our historical perspective on the issue of value neutrality point out that the position where the tool is not neutral does not mean that it is biased but that it is deeply involved in the network of relationships that influence it to be biased, and that threatens its autonomy. By providing argumentation based on the issue of ethics, we have nurtured the so-called ecology of practice and connoisseurs as a new practice and perspective that ethnography can take on the issue of accountable, ethical, and trustable science.

• Language: English
• Keywords: value judgment dispute, niche construction, ecology of practice, connoisseurs, ethnography, artificial intelligence
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 2413–2431
• Numbering: Vol. 58, iss. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-151270
• UDC: 39:004.89
• ISSN on article: 0033-5177
• DOI: 10.1007/s11135-023-01751-3
• COBISS.SI-ID: 166658051
• Publication date in RUL: 03.10.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Quality & quantity
• Shortened title: Qual. quant.
• Publisher: Springer Nature
• ISSN: 0033-5177
• COBISS.SI-ID: 26222848

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: etnologija, etika, umetna inteligenca

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P5-0151
• Name: Slovensko javno mnenje