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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, Rusya, 18 - 20 Kasım 2021, ss.315
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.