REMAINING PERVASIVE CHALLENGES IN SPORTS AND BEYOND IN THE PROCESS OF ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT SOCIETIES (Invited Speech)


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Yaprak Kemaloğlu P.

XIII International Conference Theoretical and Applied Ethics: Traditions and Prospects – 2021 ETHICS AS RESEARCH AND PROFESSION Saint Petersburg State University Institute of Philosophy Department of Ethics, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia, 18 - 20 November 2021, pp.315

  • Publication Type: Conference Paper / Summary Text
  • City: Sankt-Peterburg
  • Country: Russia
  • Page Numbers: pp.315
  • Gazi University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Yaprak Pınar, Assistant Professor, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey

REMAINING PERVASIVE CHALLENGES IN SPORTS AND BEYOND IN THE PROCESS OF ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT SOCIETIES

Efforts towards the highest ethical probabilities in artificially intelligent societies (AIS) are scarce and often occur among narrow groups of science, law, and commercial communities. Moreover, fields such as sports, politics, and medicine, which relatively have more history than AIS, continue confronting challenges about ethical conduct both within their current paradigms and concerning AIS. Maturation is mainly a two-faced phenomenon (with negative and positive attributions); both AI and sports fields are marked for such double-sidedness. For instance, both AI and sports programs aim for sustainability, advancement, improvement, development. On the other hand, they have chronic negative dimensions as explained through the Great Sport Myth (GSM) concept by Coakley (2015) or through non-authentic cyborgs and reproduced inequalities in (pre)AI ages signaled by Harraway (1981) and Yaprak (2012, 2015). The quality of the overall outcome with the less legitimated practices contains several red flags for some of the fields, weakening their positions to be called weal-balanced, or ethical. Those, for example, are related to ongoing problems in considering the current interdisciplinary, cultural, and authentic input, imbalances between powers and regarding the burden of cost and to identity, formation of the power structure and abuse of power, unequal distribution of resources, challenges with or without a resolution. Several challenges experienced in different interacting fields and contexts demonstrate how one can experience the complex, pervasive, ongoing, worldwide, and critical negative/un/ill maturities. By focusing on such separate socio-political contexts and cases that represent «pervasive hypocrisy and ethical dilemma in AI and sports configurations in the age of hypersimulation»; this content provides some explanations, especially regarding the following mission and goals of the present meeting (XIII International Conference, Theoretical and Applied Ethics: Traditions and Prospects – 2021, Ethics As Research and Profession»), in response to -and beyond- the questions as «what is the place and role of ethics at the beginning of the XXI century?», «current interdisciplinary (sport, AIS) contexts that are associated with old and new moral questions; new moral questions emerged in today's context (such as ethics of AIS and cultural heritage), old problems such as violence and discrimination; the challenge of solving ethical discourse in public and professional settings; applied ethics and challenges of modern society» and «ethical issues of emerging technology». I include the relevant findings and insights from my interdisciplinary background (mainly from health, education, management, and social-political sciences), the content analysis of some typical cases, and literature including but not limited to the sociology of sport, human rights (woman's, child, and deaf studies), sports philosophy, AI and ethics. These analyses and results reveal and expand (ethical) knowledge and solutions to some determined complex issues in policy and practice, experienced at macro and micro levels within and beyond (concerning) sports fields. Overall, this paper expands the content for more understood (subjective) probability regarding the aforementioned critical issues by highlighting some interdisciplinary cases and knowledge.