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What Can AI Ethics Learn from Anarchism?

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XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students, Volume 30, Issue 4

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3665594

Published: 28 June 2024 Publication History

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AI ethics is experiencing two crises: It is disconnected from communities being impacted by AI and largely funded by and dependent on tech companies profiting from harms. Drawing on anarchist ideas, AI ethicists have recently started building tools to challenge this status quo. What else can AI ethics learn from anarchism?

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What Can AI Ethics Learn from Anarchism?
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing profession
      1. Codes of ethics

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XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students Volume 30, Issue 4

Summer 2024

65 pages

ISSN:1528-4972

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DOI:10.1145/3676155

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