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Jill Watson Doesn't Care if You're Pregnant: Grounding AI Ethics in Empirical Studies

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Lalith Polepeddi,

Ashok GoelAuthors Info & Claims

AIES '18: Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society

Pages 88 - 94

https://doi.org/10.1145/3278721.3278760

Published: 27 December 2018 Publication History

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Jill Watson is our name for a virtual teaching assistant for a Georgia Tech course on artificial intelligence: Jill answers routine, frequently asked questions on the class discussion forum. In this paper, we outline some of the ethical issues that arose in the development and deployment of the virtual teaching assistant. We posit that experiments such as Jill Watson are critical for deeply understanding AI ethics.

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Jill Watson Doesn't Care if You're Pregnant: Grounding AI Ethics in Empirical Studies
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Distance learning
    2. E-learning
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Empirical studies in HCI

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AIES '18: Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society

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DOI:10.1145/3278721

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Cambridge University, UK
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IBM Research, USA & University of Padova, Italy

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