Exploring Ethical Requirements Elicitation for Applications in the Context of AI

• José Antonio Siqueira de Cerqueira UnB
• Edna Dias Canedo UnB

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/cbsoft_estendido.2022.225629

Abstract

Ethical concerns arises from the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based systems in use. AI ethics has been approached mainly in guidelines and principles, not providing enough practical guidance for developers. Hence, we aim to present RE4AI Ethical Guide and its evaluation. We used the Design Science Research methodology to understand the problem, present the guide and evaluate it through a survey. The Guide is composed of 26 cards across 11 principles. Our preliminary results reveal that it has the potential to facilitate the elicitation of ethical requirements. Thus, we contribute to bridge the gap between principles and practice by assisting developers to elicit ethical requirements and operationalise ethics in AI.

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Cerqueira, J. A. S., Azevedo, A. P. D., Tives, H. A., and Canedo, E. D. (2022). Guide for artificial intelligence ethical requirements elicitation RE4AI ethical guide. In 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2022, Virtual Event / Maui, Hawaii, USA, January 4-7, 2022, pages 1-10. ScholarSpace.

Cerqueira, J. A. S., Dos Santos Althoff, L., Santos De Almeida, P., and Canedo, E. D. (2021b). Ethical perspectives in ai: A two-folded exploratory study from literature and active development projects. In Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, page 5240.