AI & SocietyPub Date : 2024-07-03DOI: 10.1007/s00146-024-01977-1
Christopher A. Mouton, Caleb Lucas
{"title":"How to identify and address the real-world risks of large language models","authors":"Christopher A. Mouton, Caleb Lucas","doi":"10.1007/s00146-024-01977-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-024-01977-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 3","pages":"1557 - 1558"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141682557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI & SocietyPub Date : 2024-07-03DOI: 10.1007/s00146-024-02006-x
Tyler L. Jaynes
{"title":"Personhood for artificial intelligence? A cautionary tale from Idaho and Utah","authors":"Tyler L. Jaynes","doi":"10.1007/s00146-024-02006-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-024-02006-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 3","pages":"1559 - 1561"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141681630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI & SocietyPub Date : 2024-06-27DOI: 10.1007/s00146-024-01998-w
Chiara Carboni, Rik Wehrens, Romke van der Veen, Antoinette de Bont
{"title":"Doubt or punish: on algorithmic pre-emption in acute psychiatry","authors":"Chiara Carboni, Rik Wehrens, Romke van der Veen, Antoinette de Bont","doi":"10.1007/s00146-024-01998-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-024-01998-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Machine learning algorithms have begun to enter clinical settings traditionally resistant to digitalisation, such as psychiatry. This raises questions around how algorithms will be incorporated in professionals’ practices, and with what implications for care provision. This paper addresses such questions by examining the pilot of an algorithm for the prediction of inpatient violence in two acute psychiatric clinics in the Netherlands. Violence is a prominent risk in acute psychiatry, and professional sensemaking, corrective measures (such as patient isolation and sedation), and quantification instruments (such as the Brøset Violence Checklist, henceforth BVC) have previously been developed to deal with it. We juxtapose the different ways in which psychiatric nurses, the BVC, and algorithmic scores navigate assessments of the potential of future inpatient violence. We find that nurses approach violence assessment with an attitude of doubt and precaution: they aim to understand warning signs and probe alternative explanations to them, so as not to punish patients when not necessary. Being in charge of quantitative capture, they incorporate this attitude of doubt in the BVC scores. Conversely, the algorithmic risk scores import a logic of pre-emption into the clinic: they attempt to flag targets before warning signs manifests and are noticed by nurses. Pre-emption translates into punitive attitudes towards patients, to which nurses refuse to subscribe. During the pilots, nurses solely engage with algorithmic scores by attempting to reinstate doubt in them. We argue that pre-emption can hardly be incorporated into professional decision-making without importing punitive attitudes. As such, algorithmic outputs targeting ethically laden instances of decision-making are a cause for academic and political concern.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 3","pages":"1375 - 1387"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00146-024-01998-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI & SocietyPub Date : 2024-06-22DOI: 10.1007/s00146-024-01984-2
Helen Smith
{"title":"The pitfalls of probes: are our earthly ethical principles lost in space?","authors":"Helen Smith","doi":"10.1007/s00146-024-01984-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-024-01984-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 3","pages":"1553 - 1555"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI & SocietyPub Date : 2024-06-21DOI: 10.1007/s00146-024-01995-z
Casey R. Lynch, Bethany N. Manalo, Àlex Muñoz-Viso
{"title":"Robotics in place and the places of robotics: productive tensions across human geography and human–robot interaction","authors":"Casey R. Lynch, Bethany N. Manalo, Àlex Muñoz-Viso","doi":"10.1007/s00146-024-01995-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-024-01995-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Bringing human–robot interaction (HRI) into conversation with scholarship from human geography, this paper considers how socially interactive robots become important agents in the production of social space and explores the utility of core geographic concepts of <i>scale</i> and <i>place</i> to critically examine evolving robotic spatialities. The paper grounds this discussion through reflections on a collaborative, interdisciplinary research project studying the development and deployment of interactive museum tour-guiding robots on a North American university campus. The project is a collaboration among geographers, roboticists, a digital artist, and the directors/curators of two museums, and involves experimentation in the development of a tour-guiding robot with a “socially aware navigation system” alongside ongoing critical reflection into the socio-spatial context of human–robot interactions and their future possibilities. The paper reflects on the tensions between logics of control and contingency in robotic spatiality and argues that concepts of scale and place can help reflect on this tension in a productive way while calling attention to a broader range of stakeholders who should be included in robotic design and deployment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 3","pages":"1361 - 1374"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00146-024-01995-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI & SocietyPub Date : 2024-06-18DOI: 10.1007/s00146-024-01986-0
Maximilian Braun, Ruth Müller
{"title":"Missed opportunities for AI governance: lessons from ELS programs in genomics, nanotechnology, and RRI","authors":"Maximilian Braun, Ruth Müller","doi":"10.1007/s00146-024-01986-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-024-01986-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Since the beginning of the current hype around Artificial Intelligence (AI), governments, research institutions, and the industry invited ethical, legal, and social sciences (ELS) scholars to research AI’s societal challenges from various disciplinary viewpoints and perspectives. This approach builds upon the tradition of supporting research on the societal aspects of emerging sciences and technologies, which started with the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) Program in the Human Genome Project (HGP) in the early 1990s. However, although a diverse ELS research community has formed since then, AI’s societal challenges came to be mostly understood under the narrow framing of ethics and disconnected from the insights and experiences of past ELS research. In this article, we make up for this gap and connect insights from past ELS researchers with current approaches to research the societal challenges of AI. We analyse and summarize the history of “ELS programs” (programs that emerged since the HGP to support ELS research in a given domain) as three distinct eras: a genomics era, a nano era, and an RRI era. Each of these eras comprises several achievements and challenges relevant to ELS programs in AI research, such as the setup of independent funding bodies, the engagement of the wider public in research practice, and the increasing importance of private actors. Based on these insights, we argue that AI research currently falls back on self-regulatory, less participatory, and industry-led approaches that trouble ELS programs’ past achievements and hinder opportunities to overcome the still-existing challenges.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 3","pages":"1347 - 1360"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00146-024-01986-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI & SocietyPub Date : 2024-06-13DOI: 10.1007/s00146-024-01989-x
Polychronis Koutsakis, Despoina Giannakaki
{"title":"There is no “AI” in “Freedom” or in “God”","authors":"Polychronis Koutsakis, Despoina Giannakaki","doi":"10.1007/s00146-024-01989-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-024-01989-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 3","pages":"1547 - 1548"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141348191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI & SocietyPub Date : 2024-06-13DOI: 10.1007/s00146-024-01994-0
Siva Mathiyazhagan, Desmond U. Patton
{"title":"Towards just and equitable Web3: social work recommendations for inclusive practice of AI policies","authors":"Siva Mathiyazhagan, Desmond U. Patton","doi":"10.1007/s00146-024-01994-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-024-01994-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 3","pages":"1549 - 1551"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141350047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AI & SocietyPub Date : 2024-06-13DOI: 10.1007/s00146-024-01985-1
Bibin Xavier
{"title":"Biases within AI: challenging the illusion of neutrality","authors":"Bibin Xavier","doi":"10.1007/s00146-024-01985-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00146-024-01985-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47165,"journal":{"name":"AI & Society","volume":"40 3","pages":"1545 - 1546"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141346953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}