TY  - JOUR
AU  - Heinrichs, Bert
TI  - Discrimination in the age of artificial intelligence
JO  - AI & society
VL  - 37
SN  - 1435-5655
CY  - London
PB  - Springer
M1  - FZJ-2021-01621
SP  - 143–154
PY  - 2022
AB  - In this paper, I examine whether the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM) aggravates issues of discrimination as has been argued by several authors. For this purpose, I first take up the lively philosophical debate on discrimination and present my own definition of the concept. Equipped with this account, I subsequently review some of the recent literature on the use AI/ADM and discrimination. I explain how my account of discrimination helps to understand that the general claim in view of the aggravation of discrimination is unwarranted. Finally, I argue that the use of AI/ADM can, in fact, increase issues of discrimination, but in a different way than most critics assume: it is due to its epistemic opacity that AI/ADM threatens to undermine our moral deliberation which is essential for reaching a common understanding of what should count as discrimination. As a consequence, it turns out that algorithms may actually help to detect hidden forms of discrimination.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000636619100001
DO  - DOI:10.1007/s00146-021-01192-2
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/891610
ER  -