The ethics of Artificial Intelligence: An analysis of ethical frameworks disciplining AI in justice and other contexts of application

Giampiero Lupo

doi:10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1273

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Giampiero Lupo IGSG-CNR https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3614-1967

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https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1273

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Ethics of AI, AI in justice systems, e-justice, law and technology, legal informatics

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The recent introduction of AI tools in the justice sector poses several ethical implications as risks for judges’ independence and for procedural transparency, and discrimination biases. By developing ethical frameworks governing AI application, private and public agents have been increasingly dealing with risks pertaining to the use of AI. By inventorying and analyzing a set of ethical documents through content analysis, this study highlights the ethical implications involved in the application of AI. Moreover, by investigating the CEPEJ Charter (European Commission for the Effectiveness of Justice of the Council of Europe), the unique ethical document focusing on AI in justice, we were able to clarify potential differences between justice and other contexts of AI application with respect to risks prospected and the protection of ethical principles. The analysis confirms that the discipline of AI is a complex subject that involves very different aspects and therefore needs a broad focus on all contexts of application.

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Giampiero Lupo, IGSG-CNR

* Giampiero Lupo received his PhD in Political Science-Comparative and European Politics in 2010 at the University of Siena. He has been a researcher at the University of Bologna working on deliberative democracy, quality of democracy, justice systems, e-justice. He currently works as a researcher at the IGSG-CNR (Research Institute on Legal Informatics and Justice Systems - National Research Council of Italy) participating to a set of international projects as Building Interoperability for European Civil Proceedings Online, e-Codex, Towards Cyberjustice and publishing in peer-reviewed books and articles the results of his research. His main scientific interests are Artificial Intelligence and justice, e-justice, quality of democracy, quality of justice systems, deliberative democracy. Email address: giampiero.lupo@bo.igsg.cnr.it

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