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© 2020, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847111658 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737011655 LindaHogan(Dublin) DesigninganEthicalFuture:CanArtificial IntelligenceHelp? Throughout her illustrious career IngeborgGabriel has identified and tackled someof themostpressingethical issuesof theday.Asocialethicistofnote, she haswrittenonhumanrights, inequality andpoverty,migration, solidarity and justice,aswellasonpoliticalandsocialethics inEurope.Moreover, shehasnot onlymadean impact inacademia,whereher reputation isundisputed,but she has also engagedpolicy-makers, politicians and civil society activistswith the objectiveof shaping thebroaderpolitical debates about the futuredirectionof society,andspecificallyhowtoensureanethical future.Astheeditorshighlight, she believes that the achievement of justice is a permanent challenge and she recognizestheneedfordialogueinthesearchforamorehumanesociety.Inthis search for amorehumane society newchallenges constantly emerge, often re- latedtotheupper limitsof technology.Todaymanyof theethicalchallengesare associatedwiththeimplicationsoftheartificial intelligence(AI)revolution.Asa result,itisimportantthattheethicalimplicationsofthistechnology,particularly for the fieldof social ethics, be interrogated. 1. Societal ImpactsofDeepLearningandArtificial Intelligence Themedia is replete with accounts of the unpredictable impacts of artificial intelligence. We are familiar with Tay, the Twitterbot designed byMicrosoft engineers who unleashed a stream of racist, sexist, homophobic and Hol- ocaust-denying tweets as it ‘learned from’whatwas tweetedat it. Theongoing political fallout from the abuse of Facebook’s News Feed algorithm and the pervasiveness of fake news online during the 2016 U.S. presidential election provides an evenmore stark example of how deep learning and artificial in- telligencehasbeguntochallengemanyof theassumptionsandnormsonwhich societies have heretofore depended. Indeed, the ubiquity and convergence of technologies, togetherwiththespeedof theirdevelopmentmeans thatmanyof usareunawareofthedepthoftheirimpactandoftheethicalchallengesthatthey Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY 4.0