A Capability Approach to AI Ethics
Emanuele Ratti, Mark Graves
TL;DR
This paper introduces a capability approach to AI ethics, offering a clear conceptual framework and practical guidance for ethical AI design, especially in medical applications.
Contribution
It presents a novel capability-based framework for AI ethics, enhancing understanding and implementation of ethical considerations in AI tool development.
Findings
Capability approach clarifies AI ethics dimensions
Guides ethical implementation in AI design
Improves ethics auditing in medical AI tools
Abstract
We propose a conceptualization and implementation of AI ethics via the capability approach. We aim to show that conceptualizing AI ethics through the capability approach has two main advantages for AI ethics as a discipline. First, it helps clarify the ethical dimension of AI tools. Second, it provides guidance to implementing ethical considerations within the design of AI tools. We illustrate these advantages in the context of AI tools in medicine, by showing how ethics-based auditing of AI tools in medicine can greatly benefit from our capability-based approach.
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