Intelligent Agent Ethics Case Study

This assignment is about the ethical issues for the domain of intelligent agents. This will require academic articles as references to identify ethical issues for discussions and explanations, along with my personal opinion and knowledge on the matter if there’s any. There will be a small discussion regarding actors in articles of how they can relate to the ethical issues, there will also be a brief discussion of how the Code of Ethics could affect the decisions, outcome and issues of identified ethical issues.
Also set out in the assignment criteria I will need to propose a framework/approach/method suitable for computing professionals to address the identified ethical issues, namely for those who are directly involved in developing, testing and operating of intelligent agents as it should be beneficial to them. I will need to fully explain and discuss this, if possible I will need to provide a simple diagram to show this. Finally, there will be an explanation on the ethical, professional and technical challenges that could be faced in the attempts to realise the proposed framework, approach or method.
Introduction:
First of all, intelligent agents are a form of artificial intelligence, there are different types of intelligent agents currently implemented and used in some form around the world. Basically everything today in technology has …show more content…
In the articles I’ve read to identify ethical issues, they pretty much all state the same issues, regardless of what intelligent agent is being used. It is noted that the main ethical issue is the fact that intelligent agents are autonomous, so the concern is finding the balance between control and autonomy, have to take into account that there are other issues like privacy, responsibilities, security and trust (Dowling,