The ethical and sustainable use of artificial intelligence : A guidebook for Kumppania Oy’s employees
Herranen, Jonna (2024)
2024
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The ability to use artificial intelligence is said to be a new civic skill. Artificial intelligence has already changed humankind and businesses globally. Since the utilization level of AI is massive on a global level, it is crucial to develop specific ethical and sustainable recommendations and guidelines also in business life. These guidelines should be designed to fit the specific industry and work environment efficiently.
This thesis was a practice-based project where the aim was to research the most recent and relevant theory to develop and strengthen commissioners’ exciting internal skills and knowledge of the ethical and sustainable use of artificial intelligence. The objective was to produce a guidebook series about the ethical and sustainable use of AI for current and future employees to use.
The thesis project was implemented in five different phases including pre-readings, data collection and analysis, conversations with the commissioner, conducting a qualitative employee survey, writing phase and the finalization of the thesis. The thesis was carried out in accordance with ethical regulations and also in cooperation with the commissioner. Accessibility and reliability were taken into account in the entire thesis process.
The data collection process was executed through theory research and based on conversations with the commissioner but also as a qualitative employee survey. The analysis method utilized was a qualitative analysis method, a thematic analysis that supported categorization and analysing connections between data but also detecting the differences between phenomena.
The conclusions are that the ethical and sustainable utilization of artificial intelligence has various micro and macro level factors that affect the short- and long-term usage. Businesses should integrate and adapt a risk management strategy for artificial intelligence to ensure even more ethical and sustainable principles of are obtained.
The final outcome of the thesis was four guidebooks for commissioners’ employees on the ethical and sustainable use of artificial intelligence following the principles of microlearning. The four themes of the guidebooks were Ethical and sustainable use of artificial intelligence, Privacy and data protection, Copyrights in artificial intelligence and Artificial intelligence technologies.
This thesis was a practice-based project where the aim was to research the most recent and relevant theory to develop and strengthen commissioners’ exciting internal skills and knowledge of the ethical and sustainable use of artificial intelligence. The objective was to produce a guidebook series about the ethical and sustainable use of AI for current and future employees to use.
The thesis project was implemented in five different phases including pre-readings, data collection and analysis, conversations with the commissioner, conducting a qualitative employee survey, writing phase and the finalization of the thesis. The thesis was carried out in accordance with ethical regulations and also in cooperation with the commissioner. Accessibility and reliability were taken into account in the entire thesis process.
The data collection process was executed through theory research and based on conversations with the commissioner but also as a qualitative employee survey. The analysis method utilized was a qualitative analysis method, a thematic analysis that supported categorization and analysing connections between data but also detecting the differences between phenomena.
The conclusions are that the ethical and sustainable utilization of artificial intelligence has various micro and macro level factors that affect the short- and long-term usage. Businesses should integrate and adapt a risk management strategy for artificial intelligence to ensure even more ethical and sustainable principles of are obtained.
The final outcome of the thesis was four guidebooks for commissioners’ employees on the ethical and sustainable use of artificial intelligence following the principles of microlearning. The four themes of the guidebooks were Ethical and sustainable use of artificial intelligence, Privacy and data protection, Copyrights in artificial intelligence and Artificial intelligence technologies.