ABSTRACT
The growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications has led to unprecedented social, ethical and legal implications, as recently seen in salient technological affairs in the public sphere. Due to the growing use of AI in the public sector, these challenges have the potential to undermine the appropriateness of decision-making processes in the public sphere, and therefore must be properly tackled or moderated at the local and international levels. An effective normative framework must provide ethical principles of decision-making, suggest applications appropriate for use, and acknowledge the dignity, rights and public interest at stake in the situated use of AI techniques. The prudential aspect of rationality brings a relational, interactive, flexible and fluid framework that meets the features of AI research projects. This chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
