Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Practice
There exist over 200 guidance documents on AI values and principles, but what do these high-level principles mean in practice? In the AIOLIA project we studied many use cases across different industrial sectors and gained important insights into the operationalization of AI ethics. We have identified and narrativized many tensions between principles to illustrate what is really difficult and interesting in this field.
Interviewee
(CEA-Saclay, France)
Alexei Grinbaum is a senior research scientist at CEA-Saclay with a background in quantum information theory. He writes on ethical questions of emerging technologies, including robotics and AI. In AI ethics, his scientific interest is in the field of watermarking LLM outputs with applications in education (OpenLLM project). Grinbaum is the chair of the CEA Operational Digital Ethics Committee and member of the French National Digital Ethics Committee (CCNEN). He coordinates the EU project AIOLIA on ethics of AI in human cognition and behaviour. He also contributes to other EU projects on AI ethics focusing on professional training for students and engineers, and serves as an ethics expert to the European Commission. His books include “Mécanique des étreintes” (2014), “Les robots et le mal” (2019), and “Parole de machines” (2023).
(University of Central Florida, US)
Interviewer
Elaine M. Raybourn is a social scientist and Courtesy Research Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. Formerly at Sandia National Laboratories, she contributed to the DOE ASCR Exascale Computing Project (ECP). Elaine is currently Steering Committee Secretary for the Consortium for the Advancement of Scientific Software. She holds a Ph.D. in Intercultural Communication with an emphasis in Human Computer Interaction from the University of New Mexico, and certificates in Modeling & Simulation of Behavioral Cybersecurity and Data Ethics from the University of Central Florida and Cornell University, respectively. Elaine was a European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) Fellow with Fraunhofer FIT in Germany, the French National Institute for Computer Science (INRIA), and BT Global Research and Development in the UK. Her interests include team science and HPC AI readiness.
