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Transparency as an Ethical Safeguard

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Symbiotic Interaction (Symbiotic 2017)

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Abstract

Transparency seems to represent a solution to many ethic issues generated by systems that collect implicit data from users to model the user themselves based on programmed criteria. However, making such systems transparent – besides being a major technical challenge - risks raising more issues than it solves, actually reducing the user’s ability to protect themselves while trying to put them in control. Are transparent systems only a chimera, which provides a seemingly useful information pastiche while failing to make sense upon closer examination? Scholars from ethics and cognitive science share their thoughts on how to achieve genuine transparency and the value of transparency.

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    http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679.

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    http://standards.ieee.org/develop/indconn/ec/autonomous_systems.html.

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  1. Department of General Psychology, Human Inspired Technologies Research Centre, Padua University, Padua, Italy

    Anna Spagnolli

  2. Technical University of Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Lily E. Frank

  3. Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Pim Haselager

  4. University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, USA

    David Kirsh

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  1. Department of Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands

    Jaap Ham

  2. University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Anna Spagnolli

  3. TU Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Benjamin Blankertz

  4. University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Luciano Gamberini

  5. Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Giulio Jacucci

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Spagnolli, A., Frank, L.E., Haselager, P., Kirsh, D. (2018). Transparency as an Ethical Safeguard. In: Ham, J., Spagnolli, A., Blankertz, B., Gamberini, L., Jacucci, G. (eds) Symbiotic Interaction. Symbiotic 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10727. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91593-7_1

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