Ethical implications of AI on businesses and management practices

Abstract

With the growing use of artificial intelligence, there has been a rising concern over the ethics involved in the design, implementation and the use of AI based systems. The study of AI and related ethics is not just limited to determining who to blame in case an unacceptable judgement is given by an AI based program but is also necessary to design such AI systems which could be more rational. This paper is aimed at studying the implications of ethics in development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence based systems. The primary problem that we use to understand the implications of ethics in AI is the Trolley Problem, a variation of which has become extremely relevant in the form of self-driving cars today. We have used a 3-way approach to determine what are the ethical implications of the decisions taken by the AI vis-à-vis those taken by humans.