What is data ethics?
Turing Institute · University of Oxford
Abstract
As a new branch of ethics that studies and evaluates moral problems related to data (including generation, recording, curation, processing, dissemination, sharing and use), algorithms (including artificial intelligence, artificial agents, machine learning and robots) and corresponding practices (including responsible innovation, programming, hacking and professional codes), in order to formulate and support morally good solutions (e.g. right conducts or right values). Data ethics builds on the foundation provided by computer and information ethics but, at the same time, it refines the approach endorsed so far in this research field, by shifting the level of abstraction of ethical enquiries, from being…
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- Computer science
- Information ethics
- Data science
- Variety (cybernetics)
- Field (mathematics)
- Computer ethics
- Big data
- Engineering ethics
- Industry, innovation and infrastructure