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Leveraging Professional Ethics for Responsible AI

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N. Diakopoulos,

C. Trattner,

D. Jannach,

I. Costera Meijer, and

E. MottaAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 67, Issue 2

Pages 19 - 21

https://doi.org/10.1145/3625252

Published: 23 January 2024 Publication History

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Applying AI techniques to journalism.

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Index Terms

Leveraging Professional Ethics for Responsible AI
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing industry
      1. Sustainability
    2. Computing profession
      1. Codes of ethics
      2. Computing organizations

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Communications of the ACM Volume 67, Issue 2

February 2024

110 pages

ISSN:0001-0782

EISSN:1557-7317

DOI:10.1145/3641526

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Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY

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