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1Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.
Equipping AI-driven Decision-Support Systems (AI-DSS) with emotional capacities presents both opportunities and amplified ethical challenges. With careful social discourse and mitigation strategies, integrating emotional AI-DSS is ethically feasible.
Area of Science:
- Artificial Intelligence Ethics
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Decision Support Systems
Background:
- Ethical oversight is crucial for Emotional Artificial Intelligence (AI) research.
- Previous work stresses individualized ethical analysis for each AI type.
- Focus narrows to AI-driven Decision-Support Systems (AI-DSS).
Purpose of the Study:
- To ethically evaluate equipping AI-DSS with emotional capacities.
- To explore the dual potential for preventing biased decisions and increasing ethical risks.
- To determine conditions for the ethical integration of emotional AI-DSS.
Main Methods:
- Ethical analysis of AI-DSS with emotional capabilities.
- Review of existing ethical challenges in AI-DSS.
- Argumentation for conditional ethical advisability.
Main Results:
- Emotional AI-DSS offer opportunities to prevent emotionally biased decisions.
- Emotional AI-DSS amplify existing ethical challenges of AI-DSS.
- Conditional integration is possible with social discourse and mitigation.
Conclusions:
- Equipping AI-DSS with emotional capabilities is ethically advisable under specific conditions.
- Broad social discourse and proactive measures are essential for addressing amplified ethical challenges.
- The potential benefits of emotionally capable AI-DSS can be realized ethically.
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