Chapter 35: Power and inequalities: lifting the veil of ignorance in AI ethics

• Main Author: Resseguier, Anais (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cheltenham, UK Edward Elgar Publishing 2023
• Subjects: UYQ; AI ethics; Power; Structures of inequality; AI justice; Ethics washing; Research ethics
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This chapter argues that AI ethics needs to engage with structures of power and inequalities. It draws lessons learned from critiques AI ethics has received of ineffectiveness and highlights that a key issue is the way mainstream ethics tends to systematically neglect power relations and structures...