AI ethics strategies and practices in organizations: a scoping review

What is it about?

This scoping review aims to categorize and analyze the academic literature on promoting the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) ethics within organizations. We discovered that the healthcare sector is at the forefront of the discussion compared to other areas, such as business ethics and organizational management. Our results also reveal a gap in translating theoretical and conceptual propositions into practice. Supporting our endorsement of a pluralistic ethical perspective, our findings illustrate the various approaches organizations can adopt to enhance their implementation of AI ethics. Although we deliberately excluded publications that solely focused on policy solutions without including organizational ones, nearly 25% of the recommendations addressed AI ethics initiatives established, formalized, imposed, and regulated by an external entity relative to the organization. These results may mitigate the risk of AI ethics-washing and highlight the critical role of public engagement and social license in monitoring this risk.

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