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Morals, ethics, and trust: correctional officers' view of AI implementation : A study of the effects of ethical and moral values on trust and artificial implementation within the Swedish Prison and Probation serviceAndersson, Emil January 2022 (has links)
The use of AI within the judicial field has seen an increase in recent years, and the implementation of AI brings with it a new set of ethical and moral dilemmas that affect the field as well as the individuals working there. This study explores the moral and ethical values of correctional officers within the Swedish Prison and Probation service and how their values, together with trust in AI, affect their perception of a future AI implementation. This study conceptualizes AI as an emerging technology that has the potential to alter what it means to be a correctional officer and to transform the structure of a prison as a workplace. To answer these questions, a mixed approach case study was performed at the Swedish Prison and Probation service. The study found that the correctional officers’ imaginings of AI varied, ranging from simple translation systems to complex androids. The correctional officers saw AI as an emerging technology with the potential to reduce the hierarchical structures of the workplace and disrupt the meaning of the correctional officer, reducing the role of the correctional officer to a prison guard. Lastly, the study concluded that the values of the correctional officers could either act as enabling or preventive against specific AI implementations depending on the need for allowing intrinsic human values to manifest in the work activities, both in general trust and trust in specific AI applications. The author further discusses the lens of judicial AI for exploring the Swedish Prison and Probation service and examines the utilization of trust for understanding AI implementation. Further research in both AI and trust as a theoretical framework is called for.
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