This Handbook explores the ethical dimensions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across philosophical, legal, and applied perspectives. Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners, the handbook examines key issues in this field, including algorithmic bias, privacy, responsibility, and AIs impact on human rights and democracy. It also explores sector-specific challenges in healthcare, law, finance, art and many more, offering a multidisciplinary approach to AI Ethics. With a balance of theoretical insights and practical studies and with a diversity of authorship, this handbook serves as an essential resource for academics, policymakers, and technology professionals navigating the ethical challenges of AI in the 21st century.
Section 1: Meta-Ethics of AI.
Chapter 1: Re-Aligning Value Alignment:
a Metaethical Perspective on AI Ethics | Mehmet B. Unver (University of
Hertfordshire Law School).
Chapter 2: ELSA Labs as Method to Study AI-based
Systems at the Micro, Meso and Macro Level | Vincent Blok (Wageningen
University / Erasmus University Rotterdam).
Chapter 3: Recasting AI,
Sustainability, and the Naturalism-Normativity Problem | Nythamar de
Oliveira (Pontificia University of Rio Grande do Sul).
Chapter 4: On the
Brazilian Regulatory Law of Artificial Intelligence: Epistemic and Ethical
Obscurities | Deivide Oliveira (Federal University of Sergip).- Section 2:
Anthropocene and AI.
Chapter 5: A(I)Nthropocene: From the Enframing to The
Enveloping | Agostino Cera (Università Di Ferrara).
Chapter 6: From Bytes
to Biosphere: The Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies in the
Anthropocene | João Ribeiro Mendes (University of Minho).
Chapter 7:
Humanity Without a World: Unworldliness as a Hermeneutical Criterion for an
Ethic of AI and the Anthropocene | Lorenzo De Stefano (University of Naples
Federico II / University of Basilicata).
Chapter 8: Rethinking Earth
Digitally: AIs Ontological Trade-offs as an Ethical Challenge in the
Anthropocene | Ângelo Milhano (University of Évora).- Section 3: Privacy and
Explainability in AI.
Chapter 9: A Narrative Understanding of Privacy and
the Problem of AI Generated Content for Narrative Identity | Paul Hayes and
Noel Fitzpatrick (Technological University Dublin).
Chapter 10: Balancing
Privacy and Security: The Role of AI in Interagency Intelligence Databases |
Luca Di Vincenzo (Sapienza University of Rome), Simone Conversano (University
of Pisa) and Gianluca Tirozzi (Sapienza University of Rome).
Chapter 11: On
the Ethical Role of Explainability | João Cortese (University of São
Paulo).
Chapter 12: Ethics of Model Memorization and Machine Unlearning |
Arto Laitinen (Tampere University) and Otto Sahlgren (Tampere University).-
Section 4: Justice and AI.
Chapter 13: Implementation of Justice into AI
systems | Luka Perui (University of Zagreb).
Chapter 14: Epistemic
Defeat and the Ethics of Machine Learning | Keith Begley (Durham
University).
Chapter 15: Triumph and Debacle: Ethics of Artificial
Intelligence between Exemption and Resonance | Luciano Sesta (University of
Palermo).
Chapter 16: Legitimacy in the Age of Algocracy | Megan Foster
(Luiss Guido Carli University).- Section 5: Responsibility and AI.
Chapter
17: Humanitys Moral Burden: As AI Advances, Responsibility Escalates |
Benjamin Gregg (University of Texas, Austin).
Chapter 18: AI, Agency, and
Responsibility | Nikhil Mahant (Uppsala University).
Chapter 19:
Conceptual and Ethical Foundations of Responsibility in Artificial
Intelligence: Bridging Principles and Practice | Joaquim Giannotti
(Universidad Mayor) and Heber Leal (Universidad Mayor).
Chapter 20:
Responsible AI in Science | Sabina Leonelli (Technical University of
Munich), Shannon Vallor (University of Edinburgh) and Alex Mussgnug
(University of Edinburgh / University of Exeter).- Section 6: AI and
Aristotelian Virtues.
Chapter 21: Can We Instill Moral Virtue to AI? |
Christos Kyriacou (University of Cyprus).
Chapter 22: Aristotelian
Responsibility in AI | Hasse Hämäläinen (Mehiläinen) and Steven S. Gouveia
(University of Porto).
Steven S. Gouveia is a Research Fellow at the Mind, Language and Action Group of the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto, Portugal. He has published 16 academic books, including The Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Exploration (2019), Philosophy and Neuroscience: A Methodological Analysis (2020), Thinking the New World: Conversations on Artificial Intelligence (2022), and The Odyssey of the Mind (2024), which have been translated into more than 10 languages. He hosted the international documentary available on YouTube titled The Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Documentary, and his TEDx Talk on AI reached over 40.000 views. He delivers keynotes to audiences across the globe.
