ETHICS-2023 Session B1 - Panel: Perspectives from Liberal Arts on the practical turn in AI Ethics

The increasing proliferation of advanced digital technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) capable of performing tasks and making decisions previously reserved for humans has surfaced important ethical questions. Emerging transformative applications like generative and multi-modal AI systems and automated decision-support systems in government have raised the stakes as developers, regulators, researchers, and civil society have worked to respond. Current discourse emphasizes issues like the distribution of costs and benefits across groups and contexts, the translation of principle-based frameworks to practices, the role of diversity and public participation, and trade-offs between goals like innovation and the protection of human rights. Yet dominant responses in scholarly and policy discourse have emphasized some perspectives and solutions while other approaches have arguably not been fully explored.