New publication “Ethical perspectives on AI Agents and Agentic AI“
📢 Check out the new publication of Michael Hahn, Max Tretter and Peter Dabrock: “Ethical perspectives on AI Agents and Agentic AI“, published in AI & Ethics.
🔎 Key insights
➖AI Agents and multi-agent systems can pursue complex goals with minimal human involvement, raising new questions about oversight and control
➖Their (1) broad agency, which (2) has a higher impact on human autonomy, leading to (3) an even deeper entanglement between humans and technology highlights the need for ethical evaluation in the development and application of these systems
➖Established principles like transparency, justice & fairness, non-maleficence, responsibility & accountability, and privacy remain valid, but become more urgent and harder to operationalise
With this paper, Michael and his co-authors want to contribute to an interdisciplinary discussion and highlight the need for proactive, responsible design and governance of AI Agents and Agentic AI systems.
🔗 Find the paper here.