Accounting is one of the latest professions to consider the benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support professional decision-making. However, all such technologies come with unanticipated challenges and risks to human wellbeing.

This project will qualitatively explore the professional requirements, tensions, drivers and context within which AI will be adopted. It will then, with a focus on the SMEs context, co-design a series of instruments and methods to enable accounting forms to take an ethical perspective as they adopt AI in their practice. The work aligns with the priorities of the ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) and will be core to their ongoing strategizing around the future of the profession.

First published: 21 January 2019

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