Ethics of quantification or quantification of ethics?

By Andrea Saltelli. 2020

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Abstract Something can be gained by looking at common ethical features of different instances of quantification. While ethics of algorithms is perceived at present as an urgent issue, similar concerns can easily be associated to the use of metrics, of statistical inference, and of mathematical modelling. By reviewing these common features, strategies of resistance can be imagined to cope with computational dystopias, metrics fixation and numerical abuse.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence

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Citations in the corpus

• Ethical principles in machine learning and artificial intelligence: cases from the field and possible ways forward (2020, background): “A fundamental aspect is how and to what extent the values and the perspectives of the involved stakeholders have been taken care of in the design of the decision-making algorithm (Saltelli, 2020).”
• Ethics of quantification: illumination, obfuscation and performative legitimation (2020, background): “The time is thus ripe for an ethics of quanti fi cation (Saltelli, 2020).”