Ethical aspects of ChatGPT: An approach to discuss and evaluate key requirements from different ethical perspectives
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There has been growing attention for Large Language Models and conversational agents, and their capabilities and ben¬efits. In addition, there is a need to look at the various costs, harms, and risks involved in their development and deploy¬ment. In order to contribute to the development and deployment of ‘trustworthy AI’, we propose to organize ethical reflection and deliberation, following the seven key requirements of the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on AI (2019). We propose to look at these requirements through four different ethical perspectives— consequentialism, duty ethics, relational ethics, and virtue ethics; and to look at different levels of the sociotechnical system—individual, organization, and society. We present a case study of ChatGPT, to illustrate how this approach works in practice, and close with a discussion of this approach.
TNO Identifier
1002467
Source title
AI and Ethics
Pages
2419-2432