Download This PaperWho is an AI Ethicist? An Empirical Study of Expertise, Skills, and Profiles to Build a Competency Framework
25 Pages Posted: 17 Jul 2024
Date Written: July 10, 2024
Abstract
Over the last decade the figure of the AI Ethicist has seen significant growth in the ICT market. However, only a few studies have taken an interest in this professional profile, and they have yet to provide a normative discussion of its expertise and skills. The goal of this article is to initiate such discussion. We argue that AI Ethicists should be experts and use a heuristic to identify them. Then, we focus on their specific kind of moral expertise, drawing on a parallel with the expertise of Ethics Consultants in clinical settings and on the bioethics literature on the topic. Finally, we highlight the differences between Health Care Ethics Consultants and AI Ethicists and derive the expertise and skills of the latter from the roles that AI Ethicists should have in an organisation.
Keywords: AI Ethicist, ethics of AI, expertise, practical moral expertise, skills
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