---
id: "aiethics:lecture/ai-ethics-and-fairness"
type: "AI Ethics course lecture"
title: "AI Ethics and Fairness"
url: "https://aiethicscourse.org/lectures/ai-ethics-and-fairness"
authors: ["Benedetta Giovanola"]
summary: "This module provides an overview of the main account of fairness in AI and focuses on the need to pursue an ethical inquiry into the concept of fairness aimed at revising and enriching it, so as to design, develop and deploy really fair AI systems."
source: "AI Ethics: Global Perspectives (aiethicscourse.org)"
licence: "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)"
---

# AI Ethics and Fairness

A lecture of the course [AI Ethics: Global Perspectives](https://aiethicscourse.org/).

## Lecturer

- Benedetta Giovanola, Full Professor of Ethics, Department of Political Sciences, Communication, and International Relations, University of Macerata

## About this lecture

Fairness is one of the most prominent values in the Ethics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) debate. This module provides an overview of the main account of fairness in AI and focuses on the need to pursue an ethical inquiry into the concept of fairness aimed at revising and enriching it, so as to design, develop and deploy really fair AI systems.

## Video and transcript

- Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuaJ4t6ltpk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuaJ4t6ltpk)
- Transcript (PDF): [https://aiethicscourse.org/img/bdfd5588-2e00-4c87-a6af-851d16ec1d8c.pdf](https://aiethicscourse.org/img/bdfd5588-2e00-4c87-a6af-851d16ec1d8c.pdf)

## Read, watch, and listen

- [Weapons of Math Destruction](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/241363/weapons-of-math-destruction-by-cathy-oneil/), O'Neil, Cathy. Weapons of Math Destruction. Penguin Books, 2017.
- [Weapons of moral construction? On the value of fairness in algorithmic decision-making](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-022-09622-5), Giovanola, Benedetta, and Simona Tiribelli. "Weapons of moral construction? On the value of fairness in algorithmic decision-making." Ethics and Information Technology 24, no. 1 (2022): 3.