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Autoria: David, N.
Data: 2023
Título próprio: Implementations, interpretative malleability, value-ladenness and the moral significance of agent-based social simulations
Título da revista: AI and Society
Volume: 38
Número: 4
Paginação: 1565 - 1577
Referência bibliográfica: David, N. (2023). Implementations, interpretative malleability, value-ladenness and the moral significance of agent-based social simulations. AI and Society, 38(4), 1565-1577. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01304-y
ISSN: 0951-5666
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): 10.1007/s00146-021-01304-y
Palavras-chave: Social simulation
Interpretative malleability
Representation gaps
Misrepresentations
Techno-symbolic artifacts
Ethics
Resumo: The focus of social simulation on representing the social world calls for an investigation of whether its implementations are inherently value-laden. In this article, I investigate what kind of thing implementation is in social simulation and consider the extent to which it has moral significance. When the purpose of a computational artefact is simulating human institutions, designers with different value judgements may have rational reasons for developing different implementations. I provide three arguments to show that different implementations amount to taking moral stands via the artefact. First, the meaning of a social simulation is not homogeneous among its users, which indicates that simulations have high interpretive malleability. I place malleability as the condition of simulation to be a metaphorical vehicle for representing the social world, allowing for different value judgements about the institutional world that the artefact is expected to simulate. Second, simulating the social world involves distinguishing between malfunction of the artefact and representation gaps, which reflect the role of meaning in simulating the social world and how meaning may or not remain coherent among the models that constitute a single implementation. Third, social simulations are akin to Kroes’ (2012) techno-symbolic artefacts, in which the artefact’s effectiveness relative to a purpose hinges not only on the functional effectiveness of the artefact’s structure, but also on the artefact’s meaning. Meaning, not just technical function, makes implementations morally appraisable relative to a purpose. I investigate Schelling’s model of ethnic residential segregation as an example, in which different implementations amount to taking different moral stands via the artefact.
Arbitragem científica: yes
Acesso: Acesso Aberto
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