A Review and Formulation of Ethical Guidelines for the Development and Deployment of Artificial Intelligence Systems

Seghatoleslami, Alireza

doi:10.22034/jipm.2025.2066388.2053

A Review and Formulation of Ethical Guidelines for the Development and Deployment of Artificial Intelligence Systems

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Alireza Seghatoleslami

PhD in Philosophy of Science; Assistant Professor; Information and Society Research Department; Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (IranDoc)

10.22034/jipm.2025.2066388.2053

Abstract

The ethics of artificial intelligence is a relatively emerging field within the scope of applied ethics, which is influenced by the transformations driven by the development and deployment of AI systems and examines the ethical and social implications and issues associated with them. Although some of these consequences and ethical issues have been somewhat predictable and have enabled ethical analyses and investigations, it appears that as AI systems increasingly penetrate all dimensions and aspects of individual and social life, certain ambiguous and complex ethical challenges are also arising. Therefore, in the field of AI ethics studies, there does not actually exist a set of issues that are well-established or enjoy an acceptable level of comprehensiveness. Nonetheless, numerous efforts have been made by national and international organizations to collect and draft principles and ethical guidelines for AI in the past decade. Each AI ethics document generally consists of two parts: ethical principles and ethical guidelines. The ethical principles in these documents form the basis for formulating the ethical guidelines. The goal of this article is to introduce principles and develop ethical guidelines for AI ethics through the study of seven national and international documents. On this basis, the five integrative ethical principles of Floridi and Cowls were used as the foundation for compiling and examining AI ethical guidelines. These guidelines were reviewed in three stages. In the first stage, ethical guidelines were extracted from the aforementioned documents and listed within the framework of the five ethical principles. In the second stage, the collected guidelines were harmonized and refined. In the third stage, to evaluate the validity of the findings and the research outcome, the refined ethical guidelines were critiqued and reviewed by a focus group of experts under the five ethical principles to ensure the credibility of the selected ethical guidelines by achieving a relative consensus among the experts.

Keywords

AI Ethics

Ethical Principles

AI Ethics Document

Ethical Guidelines

Artificial Intelligence

Subjects

Ethics, Laws, and Regulations

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