Edited volume for Palgrave Macmillan's Global Ethics Series
Deadline March 31, 2024
David Ramírez Plascencia (Universidad de Guadalajara, México) and Rosa María Alonzo González (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, México) invite abstracts for the edited collection “Ethical and Legal Dilemmas of Artificial Intelligence in Latin America”, which will be submitted to Palgrave Macmillan. The editorial has already expressed great interest in the project.
In 2024, due to the global popularization of applications such as ChatGPT, there has been a renewed interest about Artificial Intelligence on considering its potentials, not only for commercial and entertainment activities, but in the financial, scientific, and belligerent sectors. ChatGPT’s capacities have reinvigorated the excitement for developing AI systems and apps that are able to emulate the human capacity of acquiring and applying knowledge. However, along with the enthusiasm, there are worries and deliberations: the use of AI to cheat at school, ethical dilemmas regarding the employment of automatized weapons at battlefields, privacy and security threats related with the companies that develop digital media apps, and the potential risks leaving the financing and defense systems under control AI systems.
The main goal of this volume is to analyze, from a critical and comparative approach, the potential benefits of using artificial intelligence to surpass traditional social and economic problems in Latin America, but to understand, at the same time, the perils and potential barriers derived from the adoption of this technology. Such as the lack of proper legal frameworks and the latent ethical conflicts of using these applications, particularly considering the protection of users from the mistreatment of private data or the use of deep fake to promote misinformation. In addition, the challenges of introducing this app in a region such as Latin America with deep economic and technological disparities, not just at local, but at regional level and global level among the North and the South. Would the adoption of AI reduce this gap, or on the contrary, will the eruption of this novel technology bring more disparity.
We look for contributions on relevant cases that analyze the ethical and legal dilemmas of incorporating Artificial Intelligence in diverse socio-economic fields in Latin America. Topics associated with inclusion of AI in the production of news (fake news, deepfake, labor precarization), algorithms and genre disparity, the inclusion of AI in education, the prospective impact of AI developments in climate change, the incorporation of AI to combat criminality or in internal and regional conflicts, the development of AI to solve social problems such as pollution and traffic in large metropoles like Mexico City or Sao Paulo, and to promote public transparency and accountability. But at the same time, analyzing the challenges of using this disruptive technology: the potential threats to the regional economy, the invasion of privacy and the misuse of citizen’s data, among other key issues.
You are warmly invited to send us your proposal (maximum three authors per chapter), please include a brief bio for every author (no more than 250 words with titles, affiliations, and contacts) and an abstract (500 words without references). Please send the proposal to the following addresses: davidram@udgvirtual.udg.mx (mailto:davidram@udgvirtual.udg.mx) and rosa.alonzo@uabc.edu.mx (mailto:rosa.alonzo@uabc.edu.mx)
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