‘Ethical’ artificial intelligence in the welfare state: Discourse and discrepancy in Australian social services
| Autor: | Andrew M Whelan, Alexandra James |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment 050901 criminology 05 social sciences Social Welfare Welfare state Traction (orthopedics) 0506 political science New public management Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration medicine Sociology Artificial intelligence 0509 other social sciences business |
| Zdroj: | Critical Social Policy. 42:22-42 |
| ISSN: | 1461-703X 0261-0183 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0261018320985463 |
| Popis: | In recent years, a discourse of ‘ethical artificial intelligence’ has emerged and gained international traction in response to widely publicised AI failures. In Australia, the discourse around ethical AI does not accord with the reality of AI deployment in the public sector. Drawing on institutional ethnographic approaches, this paper describes the misalignments between how technology is described in government documentation, and how it is deployed in social service delivery. We argue that the propagation of ethical principles legitimates established new public management strategies, and pre-empts questions regarding the efficacy of AI development; instead positioning implementation as inevitable and, provided an ethical framework is adopted, laudable. The ethical AI discourse acknowledges, and ostensibly seeks to move past, widely reported administrative failures involving new technologies. In actuality, this discourse works to make AI implementation a reality, ethical or not. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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