Keywords
Ethics Lifelong Learning and Professional Development Strategy, CRA, ARS, artificial intelligence
Abstract
This article reflects on the question ‘‘how should we approach the ethics of AI and technology?” through the example of how the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is working within this space to develop its Artificial Intelligence Systems (AIS) Ethics Lifelong Learning and Professional Development Strategy. This strategy is connected, but also acts as a critical counterpoint, to approaches to AI governance and accountability that are reliant on a notion of ‘‘Responsible AI”. In these contexts, responsible AI is understood as the regulatory adoption of ‘‘rules” diffused through a normative structure of hierarchical authority within the organization or business. Rather, this article demonstrates how considerations for AISystems ethics should be necessarily diffused and distributed through many diverse types of structures and people, and how the CRA is doing this in practice. Professional development and lifelong learning approaches to ethics posit the learner themselves as central and accords that learner with both the responsibility and the possibility of transformative action through inclusive participation. The CRA’s AIS Ethics Lifelong Learning and Professional Development Strategy foregrounds an understanding of ethics, and AISystems ethics, as a balancing or redistribution of power relations with a view to how those systems are implicated within that context. In viewing AISystems ethics as implicated not in rules but in relations, we also are better positioned to develop impactful policy and programs to address how AISystems function as a disruptive force, technology, and set of practices (both negative and positive) for those who are disproportionately affected by the harmful aspects of new technologies.
Recommended Citation
Ruth Bankey, "More Than ‘‘Responsible AI” Bridging Artificial Intelligence Systems (AIS) and AISystems Ethics into Practice" (2024) 21:2 CJLT 137.
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