The Role of Privacy as an Ethical Guarantee in the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Public Utilities: A Comparative Analytical Study

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Mohamed Ahmed Abdel Naeem

Abstract

Accelerated scientific development has imposed itself on countries with different degrees of progress between them, and artificial intelligence is one of the most prominent manifestations of this development, and artificial intelligence is generally meant to simulate machines to the mental abilities of humans, and this technology emerged in the last stage of the last century, and led to a major transformation in various areas of life. It is important that this legal framework coincides with an ethical charter that addresses the ethical risks arising from the administration’s use of artificial intelligence applications. This charter includes a set of principles and guarantees aimed at reducing those risks, such as: the right to privacy and protection of personal data, transparency and integrity, justice and equality, responsibility, and other ethical principles.
The study addresses this important dimension, and sheds more light on one of the principles that represent ethical guarantees in this field, which is the guarantee of the privacy of personal data, and this dimension has aroused our interest due to the lack of legal studies that dealt with it. The study has resulted in important results and recommendations worthy of implementation to move forward towards the establishment of integrated legislation regulating the administration’s use of artificial intelligence systems, and to exert more effort towards the establishment of an ethical charter that includes a set of guarantees such as the guarantee of privacy and the protection of personal data, in order to achieve the desired balance between the escalating technical innovation of those systems on the one hand and the protection of rights and freedoms on the other hand, and to ensure a safer use of these systems in general and in the field of providing public utility services in particular.
Keywords: Privacy- Ethical Guarantee- Artificial Intelligence- Public Utility Services- Right to Privacy- Ethical Safeguards- ethical responsibility of the administration.

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