For Better or for Worse?

Abstract

This chapter explores how the social implications of AI are being posited, often sensationalized as a threat to humanity, rather than being framed in something humanly designed that ought to remain within the control of its maker, transparent in terms of capacity to undertake complex decision making and which most importantly is accountable for every individual action made in terms of design and programming. The aims of the chapter are threefold, namely, to consider global ethics and the impact that AI could potentially have in terms of increasing societal inequalities in terms of existing infrastructure; to provide an insight into the developmental and progressive use of AI across organizational infrastructures such as global medicine and health and the military; finally, to embed the concept of ethical AI and the potential for its praxis across all areas of its integration.