O'Donovan, C; (2020) AI ethics from the ground up: cultivating interdisciplinary capabilities (for care). Presented at: 12th ACM Web Science Conference 2020 (WebSci '20), Southampton, UK.

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Interdisciplinary research has led to significant breakthroughs in the fields of AI, robotics and autonomous systems. Yet it has also been the basis of significant controversies. Cambridge Analytica and Facebook's amalgam of psychographics, data science and engineering at scale being perhaps the most infamous recent example. Despite continued promotion from research funders, it should be clear then that interdisciplinary research is not in itself an uncontested good. This presentation aims to explore the political and ethical dimensions of interdisciplinary research practices in the fields of AI, robotics and autonomous systems. Following a human capabilities approach and using mixed-methods, we locate and map a set of research capabilities valued by researchers at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory. This prompts a discussion on what it means to consider ethics of AI, not from a set of normative statements, but as practiced on the ground.

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