Technofixing the Future: Ethical Side Effects of Using AI and Big Data to meet the SDGs

Ryan, Mark, Antoniou, Josephina orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-0169-1299, Brooks, Laurence, Jiya, Tilimbe, Macnish, Kevin and Stahl, Bernd (2019) Technofixing the Future: Ethical Side Effects of Using AI and Big Data to meet the SDGs. In: 2019 IEEE Smart World Congress, 19-23 August 2019, De Montford University, Leicester, UK. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

While the use of smart information systems (the combination of AI and Big Data) offer great potential for meeting many of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), they also raise a number of ethical challenges in their implementation. Through the use of six empirical case studies, this paper will examine potential ethical issues relating to use of SIS to meet the challenges in six of the SDGs (2, 3, 7, 8, 11, and 12). The paper shows that often a simple “technofix”, such as through the use of SIS, is not sufficient and may exacerbate, or create new, issues for the development community using SIS.


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