
Three Lenses on AI Ethics
Brown Bag Session
Date: 12:15 | 12-02-2026
Location: E.15.39
Along with the rapid development of AI, the broad body of literature discussing the moral concerns raised by AI – ranging from privacy and surveillance issues to discrimination and possibilities for human flourishing in an AI-augmented world – has substantially grown. In solely focusing on AI ethics principles and guidelines, most overviews of the field hold a principle-based understanding of the moral concerns raised by AI. However, as our review illuminates, there is more richness and diversity in the current body of literature than this dominant principle-based approach seems to suggest. In this presentation, I will identify three approaches by which authors tend to formulate the moral concerns raised by AI: principles, lived realities, and power structures. These approaches can be viewed as ‘lenses’ through which authors understand and grapple with the moral concerns raised by AI, each coming with their specific theoretical sensitivities, disciplinary traditions, and methodologies, hence, specific strengths and weaknesses.