על מה אנחנו מדברים כשאנחנו מדברים על אתיקה אלגוריתמית? המקרה של מדעני נתונים בישראל /‏

Literature on AI ethics tends to examine the subject through philosophical, legal, or technocratic perspectives, largely neglecting the socio-cultural one. This literature also overwhelmingly focuses on the US. Aiming to fill these gaps, this article explores how Israeli data scientists understand, interpret,and depict algorithmic ethics. Based on a pragmatist sociological analysis of 60semi-structured interviews, we ask: which ideologies, discourses and worldviews construct algorithmic ethics? Our findings point to three dominant moral logics:A) ethics as a personal endeavor; B) ethics as hindering progress; and C) ethics as a commodity. We show that while data science is a nascent profession, these moral logics originate from the techno-libertarian culture of its parent-profession –engineering, and they accordingly prevent the institutionalization of an agreed-upon moral regime. Thus, this paper offers to see algorithmic ethics in a contextualized perspective and explore how data scientists practically see and construct their ethics.