The Ethics and Epistemology of Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiative—or the “EthEpi of AI”, for short—aims to advance fundamental AI research, taking advantage of the best that an interdisciplinary research community has to offer. Our strategy is to address a methodological lacuna in the field of AI and to contribute to the resolution of pressing issues connected to the concept of “intelligence”. A significant part of this is helping ethics of AI out of the deadlock by addressing underlying problems with AI as an information-processing technology. We want to unite researchers from philosophy, computer science, and social sciences around the ethics-and-epistemology methodological approach, with two main goals in mind:
- Developing theory around AI concepts, highlighted by ethics and epistemology of AI methodological approach;
- Drawing on our expertise across various domains within the philosophy of science, to foster a productive dialogue between AI researchers from different fields through exploration and experiment with innovative approaches.
The initiative developed around a core of UT researchers from different sub-fields of philosophy (normative ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of science, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of mind, social philosophy), and the targeted cooperations with computer scientists in different sub-domains of AI. The EthEpi of AI is led by an enthusiastic group of three philosophers:
For more information: https://www.utwente.nl/en/bms/aiethicsandepistemology/