Ethical and methodological challenges in building morally informed AI systems

Vulnerable participants in health research: methodological and ethical challenges

ethical reasoning in bioethics attempts to justify normative claims by referring to moral theory and arguments in an effort to defend conclusions with which all reasonable people must agree. (Burgess, 2007, p. 2285) However, as we have illustrated, ethical guidelines and notions of informed consent are normative claims that may be challenged in social and health research. The guidelines from me...

ISLAM AND CONTEMPORARY ETHICAL CHALLENGES

Ethical Challenges in Viral Marketing

Since the use of internet has been identified as a necessity in today’s world, businesses benefit from different aspects of this technology especially for marketing and advertisements so that the owners of businesses are searching for effective high speed and low costs ways of marketing such as viral marketing. Despite of its high efficiency and effectiveness, viral marketing creates various et...

Hedgehogs, Foxes, and the Evolving Social Contract in Psychological Science: Ethical Challenges and Methodological Opportunities

This article is addressed primarily to new researchers who feel burdened by an expanding body of ethical rules and regulations. Moral dilemmas proliferate as researchers try to strike a balance between ethical accountability and the technical demands of scientific practices. The challenge is to expand existing knowledge and abide by an evolving social contract that is responsive to current ethi...

Introduction: conceptual, methodological, practical, and ethical challenges in studying and applying indigenous knowledge

For over a half a century, indigenous knowledge systems have captured the attention of anthropologists (Hunn 2007). Recently, interest has intensified both inside and outside the discipline among scholars and practitioners in a wide variety of contexts ranging from international development, resource management, sustainability and resilience, disaster response, climate change, ethnobotany, ethn...