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Enabling ethics mechanisms in the governance of algorithmic artificial persons (ALAP)

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: In the global context of a ‘new social contract’ and a ‘flourishing world’, ethics mechanisms such as principles, guidelines, recommendations, standards, frameworks and checklists, are being established by public and private organisations and governments for the governance of 'algorithmic artificial persons (ALAP)', autonomous artificial intelligence (AAI) systems and emerging information and communication technologies (eICT). This paper examines, and identifies eleven gaps in the current ethics mechanisms, employing a ‘qualitative evidence synthesis’ (QES). Additionally, it proposes a ‘prescriptive conceptual model’ of an ‘anticipatory general ethics library’ (AnGEL), to enable resolution of these gaps. AnGEL is conceptually modelled as an implementable library of norms and rules for ALAPs / AAI systems and eICT, agnostic of domains and use cases. The conceptually modelled AnGEL may, post ‘verification’ through further discourse, and subsequent ‘validation’ of a prototype, be hosted on a cyber-physical intermediary. It can be rendered accessible through ‘Ethics-as-a-Service’ and provide ‘ethics interoperability’.

Source: Journal of Responsible Technology

DOI: 10.1016/j.jrt.2025.100143

Authors: Siri Padmanabhan Poti, Christopher J. Stanton, Catherine J. Stevens

Institution: Western Sydney University

Language: English

Topic: Ethics and Social Impacts of AI

Subfield: Safety Research

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,560

Funders: Western Sydney University, Defence Science and Technology Group