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The success of Industry 4.0 has led to technological innovations in Operator 4.0 roles and capabilities. This increasing human presence and involvement amongst Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions, automated and autonomous systems have renewed the ethics challenges of human-centric industrial cyber-physical systems in sustainable factory automation. In this paper, we aim to address these ethics challenges by proposing a new AI ethics framework for Operator 4.0. Founded on the key intersecting ethics dimensions of the IEEE Ethically Aligned Design and the Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI by the European Union’s High-Level Expert Group on AI, this framework is formulated for the primary profiles of the Operator 4.0 typology across transparency, equity, safety, accountability, privacy, and trust. This framework provides a level of completeness, where all ethics dimensions are closely intertwined, and no component is applied in isolation for physical, mental, and cognitive operator workloads and interactions.
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Burnett, D., El-Haber, N., Alahakoon, D., Karnouskos, S., De Silva, D. (2022). Advancing an Artificial Intelligence Ethics Framework for Operator 4.0 in Sustainable Factory Automation. In: Borangiu, T., Trentesaux, D., Leitão, P., Cardin, O., Joblot, L. (eds) Service Oriented, Holonic and Multi-agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future. SOHOMA 2021. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1034. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99108-1_26
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