...Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Introduction: Artificial Intelligence The growing field of artificial intelligence is one that continues to show potential in many areas of expertise such as legal work and medicine. Artificial intelligence (AI) as explained by Semmler and Rose is “the process of simulating human intelligence through machine processes” (Semmler). There are many kinds of AI that do different things, but the main attribute of all AI is the ability to learn from specific data and use what they learn to perform a task. Some simple AI can improve the chance to find diseases in blood by keeping good records, while others can do the work of first-year associates at a law firm (Nunez). There are now countless AIs and with them starting to become widespread the ethics of having powerful AI is now being studied. The study of AI is widespread and unregulated in many countries which has created an opportunity for questionable AI to appear. This has caused an issue of ethics to appear and be studied. Researchers of AI such as Sean Semmler and Zeeve Rose look into the effect AI has...
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...INTRODUCTION Personal Ethics Leadership is all about right behaviors, the right set of actions. Ethics can be defined with more than one meaning. Ethics, as a general understanding, is a set of principles to be followed as an individual. Personal ethics refer to a personal code of conduct when dealing with others. Most of the organizations will have ethics as part of their core values, in one form or the other. But how different is ethics for a person and for a leader? Emotional Intelligence It can be defined as the ability to use emotions intelligently and appropriately in different situations, combined with the ability to use emotions. Emotionally intelligent people are able to accurately recognize and comprehend emotion, both in them and in others, to appropriately express emotion, and to be able to control their own emotion so as to facilitate their own emotional, intellectual and spiritual growth. In short, emotionally intelligent people intentionally use their thinking and behavior to guide their emotions rather than letting their emotions dictate their thinking and behavior. Individual Ethics In today’s world, people can make a single decision that can have a profoundly positive or negative affect on the family, their employees, coworkers, a nation, and even on the entire world. Ethics is a set of values and principles that guide the behavior of an individual or a group. Personal ethics are different for each person but for the most part, people want to...
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...e We Have a Problem Nancy Vang 01/22/12 Professor De La Cruz “Business ethics is written and unwritten codes of principles and values that govern decisions and actions within a company” (Love to know business, 2012). Also known as corporate ethics or professional ethics, it incorporates moral guidelines as also the problems a business entity frequently faces. Businesses started specifying their ethical principles from the late 1980s, perhaps to stay away from scandals in businesses. However, there are a million ethical issues in today's businesses and unfortunately there is no perfect decision measurement for all these ethical issues. The ethical issues in international businesses are much more complicated and much more delicate, along with being tenfold in numbers. Therefore, let’s take a look at Corporate Intelligence. How do you think it relates to ethics? And why it is an ethical issue? Corporate Intelligence issue relates to ethics by being a purposeful and coordinating monitoring of your competitors within a specific marketplace. It also has to do with determining what your business rivals will do before they do it. It is to gain foreknowledge of your competitor's plans and to plan your business strategy to countervail their plans. As you might expect, this will involve many methods at the tactical collection level, but it will also require integration into your existing information infrastructure, analysis and distribution of the information, and...
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...Competitive intelligence is the action of defining, gathering, analyzing, and distributing intelligence about products, customers, competitors, and any aspect of the environment needed to support executives and managers making strategic decisions for an organization Competitive intelligence is an ethical and legal business practice, as opposed to industrial espionage, which is illegal Competitive intelligence essentially means understanding and learning what's happening in the world outside your business so you can be as competitive as possible. It means learning as much as possible as soon as possible about your industry in general, your competitors, or even your county's particular zoning rules. Ethics has been a long-held issue of discussion among CI practitioners. Essentially, the questions revolve around what is and is not allowable in terms of CI practitioners' activity. A number of very excellent scholarly treatments have been generated on this topic, most prominently addressed through Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals publications. The book Competitive Intelligence Ethics: Navigating the Gray Zone provides nearly twenty separate views about ethics in CI, as well as another 10 codes used by various individuals or organizations. Combining that with the over two dozen scholarly articles or studies found within the various CI bibliographic entries, it is clear that no shortage of study has gone into better classifying, understanding and addressing CI ethics. Competitive...
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...| Concept of Ethics & Obligations | George Tenet: Ethical Dilemmas | | Vivian L Burke | | February 5, 2012 In his essay Public Administration and Ethics: A Prologue to a Preface, Dwight Waldo identifies and differentiates between private and public morality and notes that the two can often be at odds with each other. In Waldo’s opinion, the fundamental premise of public morality is that the actions and behavior of those in office or tasked with the representation of the public, should be done for the good of all. Hence it is about more than simply being honest, trustworthy and law abiding. Often personal, professional, legal and organizational goals are in conflict. The competent public administrator is one who in spite outside pressures, is able to juggle and overcome these conflicting ethical codes (White 2008). George Tenet was well liked, direct and loyal. Though he was not an experienced politician and lacking any experience in foreign policy and lacked military background, he was chosen to become the Director of Central Intelligence at the CIA. He inherited a CIA at a point of dismal morale. The agency suffered due to years of inconsistent leadership and direction. Tenet’s priorities were rebuilding the CIA, improving morale, advancing technological capabilities to acquire intelligence and to clarify and enforce the mission of the agency. The CIA continued to suffer intelligence blunders that were the basis of misinformation or lack of knowledge about...
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...| “How Personal Can Ethics Get?” | Frank Gladden | | Strayer University | | | 1. Discuss how personal differences and preference can impact organizational ethics. Personal differences and preferences impact organizational ethics due the fact that we all have a different set of ethics at some level. These differences will lead to conflict at times. This is where an organization’s need to create its own sort of ethic, which some organizations refer to as a Code of Conduct, can blend the individual employee’s personal code into that of the organization. Ethics can be defined as a set of values and principles that help us determine what is right and wrong1. It can also be described as a moral code. Lawrence Kohlberg’s model of moral development points out how a person’s moral code (ethic) can begin and grow. It can be shown as a step progression: 1) Obedience and Punishment. 2) Instrumental. 3) Interpersonal. 4) Law and Order. 5) Social Contract. 6) Universal.2 If a person never progresses to the top of the model, they may or may not do certain things in an organization that they may or may not have done whether someone knows about it or not. A person’s ethic, most agree, start at home. We are raised with our parents’ own opinions of what is right and wrong. Then, as we grow, our ethics are further molded and adjusted by our peers in school, places of worship, and other social organizations. For example, in some cultures, it is considered...
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...Expert Systems Dr. Ashraf Shirani Literature Review for Group 1 Group Members: Leslie Allen Joe Nimely Oluranti Odofin Gary Turner The topic for the research paper will be business intelligence, most specifically the impact on privacy. The data gathered through various business intelligence technologies, while it may not be personally identifiable information such as name and/or social security number, the data provided to businesses gives them a greater insight into consumer behavior. This provides the businesses with information to leverage additional sales and services. Businesses gather all kinds of data on consumers, often sharing with other related competitors, to obtain a better view of the consumer behavior, including trends and associations. The information obtained through business intelligence may or may not be personally identifiable, it may still be sensitive in nature. Does it cross the line ethically? Are there other techniques to gather this information while maintaining privacy for the consumer? In this paper, the ethical issues of privacy on business intelligence will be explored to determine if the business intelligence outweighs the intrusion on privacy. Key concepts in this review include privacy, big data analytics, business intelligence, ethical awareness framework, data mining, hackers, and the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) guidelines. Data mining is discovering knowledge from large amounts of data...
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...The concept of ethical obligation GEORGE Tenet and the Last Great Days of the CIA PADM 500: Modern Public Administration August 2, 2013 Identify four (4) cross-coded ethical dilemmas facing former CIA Director George Tenet and assess their impact on his leadership abilities. During George Tenet tenure as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, there were several ethical dilemmas he faced, among which most significantly were the violations of national and international human right policies. George Tenet was also faced with the ethical dilemma of being straightforward to the people he worked with, especially his field officers, and most essentially the nation as at large. He knew all along that the statements about Saddam Hussein and chemical weapons were a fluke, but went along with it and cost American families over four thousand lives. Additionally, his role as meditator in the meeting between former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was also an ethical concern. Professionally, this role was more diplomat than chief spymaster, which made many insiders “distinctly uncomfortable” (Posner 1998; Tenet 2007, 74). Others in the administration were pleased with the idea considering it as unethical despite the fact that Tenet tried to explain that nobody else could act better in that position. This threatened his leadership due to the fact that individuals were beginning to lack trust in his leadership...
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...Ethics, success and leadership the Infosys way Publication date? September 2006 Can you be ethical and successful? Definitely “yes”, and just look for proof at Infosys, described in “Beyond Branding” by the Medinge Group as “one of the top ‘brands with a conscience’ in the world”. My exposure to India’s Infosys began in 2005 when the Chairman and Chief Mentor, Mr N. R. Narayana Murthy, visited Australia and when speaking about corporate governance and morality in business he told the audience “We follow one principle – the softest pillow is a clear conscience”. Later, he was quoted on this many times by senior government ministers and business leaders - such was the impact of his communication of ethics and leadership. I cannot recall if at the same time he quoted Mahatma Gandhi who urged us to “be the change you want in the world” which is one of the great ethical exhortations of the modern era. Yet for Infosys to have a reputation almost equally strong for its success as it is for its ethics, is quite an achievement in a short time. It was only a little over 25 years ago that Murthy and his co-founders sat around the kitchen table and set out their business dream. Infosys is a relative newcomer to the world of corporate success, starting in 1981 but experiencing its strongest growth in recent years. For example, revenue in 1994 was US$9.5million but by 2004 had grown to US$1billion which became US$2billion the year after, a tribute to the 50,000 or so employees of the business...
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...•Why do companies gather market intelligence and conduct marketing research? Market intelligence is gathered by companies in order to stay in touch with what is happening in the marketplace. If a company would not gather market intelligence, it would leave the company vulnerable. Gathering market intelligence helps companies know what the competitors are up to and what the business environment is like. Marketing research is conducted in order to: develop product ideas and designs, figuring out if or not there will be demand for the product so as to know whether or not to produce it, ascertaining the market segments for the product, determining how much price consumers will be willing to pay so as to making pricing decisions, assessing the satisfaction of the consumers and so on. (Tanner & Raymond, 2010, p. 192). • What activities are part of market intelligence gathering? Activities that are a part of market intelligence gathering are: scanning newspapers, trade magazines, and economic data produced by the government to find out about trends and what the competitor firms are doing. (Tanner & Raymond, 2010, p. 195) Market intelligence can be gathered by observing the competitor firms’ web sites, using search engines and monitoring social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. • How do marketing professionals know if they have crossed the line in terms of gathering marketing intelligence? Marketing professionals can know if they have crossed the line in...
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...Police Ethics Name Professor Institution Course Date The impact of terrorism on the police mission in the United States? The roles of police in United States according to Schmalleger (2007) include; law enforcement, apprehending law offenders and investigating crimes, crime prevention, and domestic peace as well as providing the society with the required enforcement services, and ensuring that there exists tranquility. Over a long period, the police roles remained as stated until the effects of September 11, 2001 Islamic terrorist attack when the police assumed the responsibilities of antiterrorism and incidents related to terrorism activities. Currently, police are dedicating much of resources and time in training as preparation in case of future potential terrorist attack. Intelligence and information gathering have become very essential activities by police to ensure continued prevention of terrorism attack. In addition, police have prioritized their response to incidences of terrorism and were considering the responses as of more precedence compared to other roles or duties (Crank J. P., 2010). Disagreements in existence towards law enforcement to combat terrorism Since the September 11 terrorist attack, disagreements have emerged on how to deal with the threat of terrorism attack (Delattre, 2006). The first of all the disagreement was on how much intelligence federal...
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...Personal Can Ethics Get?” 1. Discuss how personal differences and preference can impact organizational ethics. Personal differences and preference can impact organizational ethics whenever there is a departure between what work ethics are expected to be in place and the actual ethical environment of the organization. If a leader or a leadership team lacks the appropriate ethical intensity and thus fails to highlight the moral importance given to an issue, then the leader’s personal preference will become the ethical compass for the organization. Clearly, while every individual has his/her own perception of work ethics, the organizational culture of professional standards demands that personal differences and preference take a back seat to the organizational ethical well-being especially considering the organizational responsibility to its stakeholders and public image. When personal differences and preference become part of the decision making process, the organizational ethics become diluted thus causing confusion, disbelief, disappointment and even decreased performance among the members of the organization itself. The immediate by-products are the unraveling of the ethical canvas of the organization and the increasing negative social consensus: both of which will eventually erode the organizational ethical foundation and could potentially have a direct impact on diminished product loyalty and market share. The case study “How Personal Can Ethics Get?” (Dench...
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...WORLD PRESS FREEDOM ,OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN WORLD PRESS FREEDOM ,OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN AAAS 63/5-L SAHIWAL +923006927563 5/5/2011 AAAS 63/5-L SAHIWAL +923006927563 5/5/2011 AKRAM SAQIB Freedom of press is the most wanted freedom but it is being abused everywhere in the world. The powerful states deem it their right to use press for their covert purposes. AKRAM SAQIB Freedom of press is the most wanted freedom but it is being abused everywhere in the world. The powerful states deem it their right to use press for their covert purposes. World Press Freedom Day, Other Side of the Coin On 3rd of May every year, soon after the termination of the Labour Day activities world press freedom day is observed. Freedom of press is a perpetual issue. There is always divided opinion over rights and duties of press. The media owners and journalists are always of the view that there should be liberty of they are bound to the futile rules and regulations and have no freedom to express the truth. On the other hand the ministries of the information argue that they have given extra ordinary freedom to the press. In fact these two opinions are the two extremes. The situation is in between these two states. Media insists on knowing more and more in order to astonish their viewers and readers. There is a lot of evidence that media aggrandize the matters always or conceal facts due to some overt purposes. Each and every country has formulated laws to control the media. There is code of conduct for...
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...Explanations of the Branches of Philosophy Jacqueline T. Ashley April 3, 2016 AIU Online Professor Ian McDougall Explanations of the Branches of Philosophy Philosophy is the study of the primary essence of knowledge, reality, and existence, mainly when viewed as an educational regimen. Philosophy includes an approach of questions and answers among a couple of individuals; this approach is referred to as a dialogue. In a dialogue, an individual is searching for a reasonable view and comprehension and the other individual already has to understand and wants to assist the other. Philosophy encompasses six branches to aid in the comprehension of the orderly and logical approach to philosophy. The six branches are Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Aesthetics, Political philosophy, and social philosophy. The first branch in understanding in understanding philosophy is Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that handles the first concepts of things, including conceptual principles like being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space. Metaphysics is the first branch of philosophy credible for the research of existence and reality. It answers the question “What is?” It involves everything that occurs or lives as well as the type of existence itself. It determines whether the society is actual or simply a hallucination. It is an underlying perspective of society. It is the base of philosophy. If there was no justification or explanation of the society surrounding us the...
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...components to interpersonal effectiveness, which are competence, emotional intelligence, ethics, and mindfulness. Competence is the ability to accomplish set goals. In order to feel as if one is competent, I believe motivation is a huge factor that can cause a decrease in competence. At this point in my life, I am definitely questioning my competence. I feel a complete lack of effectiveness and my motivation does tend to waiver according to my constantly changing moods (Bipolar Disorder). I know that I can accomplish the things that I put my mind to, however my contingency perspectives are lacking. Maintaining focus and motivation have become daily struggles for me. Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand my feelings, having empathy for others, and being able to regulate my emotions. I believe that I do maintain emotional intelligence, however my partner believes my emotions are based too much on how others are feeling in our home and many times I am wrong in interpreting others' feelings. For example, when my partner is quiet, many times I may think he is mad or that I have angered him and so therefore I become anxious. I find that I do at times lack self control when it comes to my moods, behavior, and reactions to others. I have implemented DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) to help with this. I have to be much more cognizant of my emotions and how my behavior is affected. Ethics are standards or moral choices we make. I live my life by the principle...
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