Print Email Facebook Twitter Four Responsibility Gaps with Artificial Intelligence Title Four Responsibility Gaps with Artificial Intelligence: Why they Matter and How to Address them Author Santoni De Sio, F. (TU Delft Ethics & Philosophy of Technology) Mecacci, Giulio (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Date 2021 Abstract The notion of “responsibility gap” with artificial intelligence (AI) was originally introduced in the philosophical debate to indicate the concern that “learning automata” may make more difficult or impossible to attribute moral culpability to persons for untoward events. Building on literature in moral and legal philosophy, and ethics of technology, the paper proposes a broader and more comprehensive analysis of the responsibility gap. The responsibility gap, it is argued, is not one problem but a set of at least four interconnected problems – gaps in culpability, moral and public accountability, active responsibility—caused by different sources, some technical, other organisational, legal, ethical, and societal. Responsibility gaps may also happen with non-learning systems. The paper clarifies which aspect of AI may cause which gap in which form of responsibility, and why each of these gaps matter. It proposes a critical review of partial and non-satisfactory attempts to address the responsibility gap: those which present it as a new and intractable problem (“fatalism”), those which dismiss it as a false problem (“deflationism”), and those which reduce it to only one of its dimensions or sources and/or present it as a problem that can be solved by simply introducing new technical and/or legal tools (“solutionism”). The paper also outlines a more comprehensive approach to address the responsibility gaps with AI in their entirety, based on the idea of designing socio-technical systems for “meaningful human control", that is systems aligned with the relevant human reasons and capacities. Subject AI and accountabilityAI ethicsEngineer responsibilityMeaningful human controlResponsibility gap To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9de5bb5c-73cf-455b-b211-693831ce8944 DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-021-00450-x ISSN 2210-5433 Source Philosophy & Technology, 34 (4), 1057-1084 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2021 F. Santoni De Sio, Giulio Mecacci Files PDF SantoniDeSio_Mecacci2021_ ... thArti.pdf 1.09 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:9de5bb5c-73cf-455b-b211-693831ce8944/datastream/OBJ/view