AI ETHICS BY DESIGN: INTEGRATING ETHICAL CONSTRAINTS INTO AI MODELS FOR ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS
Abstract
This review paper studied ethical restriction integration within artificial intelligence (AI) models which engineers use in their applications. The research adopted a secondary qualitative method to evaluate recent documents and case studies from sectors including civil engineering and renewable energy with smart systems. The research established that organizations increasingly endorse ethics by design yet practical execution of these principles remains scattered across various domains. Core ethical principles such as fairness and transparency and accountability emerged frequently but received varied implementation throughout different processes. The research emphasized the need to build specialized ethical frameworks along with collaborative teamwork between different fields and objective ethical assessment methods to promote ethical AI development in engineering.
Keyword : AI Ethics, Engineering Applications, Ethics by Design, Responsible AI, Transparency, Accountability, Fairness, Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Ethical Frameworks, Sustainability, Explainability, Ethical Evaluation.
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