Good governance as a response to discontents? Déjà vu, or lessons for AI from other emerging technologies

Inga Ulnicane; Damian Okaibedi Eke; William Knight; George Ogoh; Bernd Carsten Stahl

doi:10.1080/03080188.2020.1840220

Good governance as a response to discontents? Déjà vu, or lessons for AI from other emerging technologies

Inga Ulnicane^*, Damian Okaibedi Eke, William Knight, George Ogoh, Bernd Carsten Stahl

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Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have led to intense debates about benefits and concerns associated with this powerful technology. These concerns and debates have similarities with developments in other emerging technologies characterized by prominent impacts and uncertainties. Against this background, this paper asks, What can AI governance, policy and ethics learn from other emerging technologies to address concerns and ensure that AI develops in a socially beneficial way? From recent literature on governance, policy and ethics of emerging technologies, six lessons are derived focusing on inclusive governance with balanced and transparent involvement of government, civil society and private sector; diverse roles of the state including mitigating risks, enabling public participation and mediating diverse interests; objectives of technology development prioritizing societal benefits; international collaboration supported by science diplomacy, as well as learning from computing ethics and Responsible Innovation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	71-93
Number of pages	23
Journal	Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
Volume	46
Issue number	1-2
Early online date	7 Mar 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2020.1840220
Publication status	Published - 3 Apr 2021

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation under the Specific Grant Agreements No. 720270 (HBP SGA1), No. 785907 (HBP SGA2) and No. 945539 (HBP SGA3). This paper has benefited from the comments and suggestions on an earlier version presented at the Science in Public 2018 conference in Cardiff, Wales. The authors are grateful to Tonii Leach, Dinesh Mothi and Winter-Gladys Wanjiku who contributed to the document analysis as well as to Juliana Nnadi and Iffat Islam who participated in early discussions on the framing of this paper.

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© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Keywords

Artificial Intelligence
emerging technologies
ethics
governance
policy
regulation
Responsible Innovation
societal challenges

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
History and Philosophy of Science

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