This paper introduces the ‘Schwartz Value Circle’ (Schwartz & Bilsky, 1990; Schwartz et al., 2012; Schwartz, 2021), as a tool that helps municipalities reflect on the impact of 'smart city' technology.
Relational values aim to capture the moral worth of features of nature or society that are neither intrinsic nor merely instrumental. This matters for environmental ethics (Pascual et al.
AI ethics increasingly aims to move from abstract principles toward specific practices (Morley et al., 2020; Prem, 2023). Questions remain about how to empirically study and support the moral capacities of AI practitioners.
Aligning AI with moral values is widely recognized as important task. Besides the problem of implementation, it remains an open question which moral values current or future AI systems should align with.