Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies: An Introduction

Ibo R. van de Poel; Lily E. Frank; Julia Hermann; Jeroen K.G. Hopster; Dominic Lenzi; Sven R. Nyholm; Behnam  Taebi; Elena Ziliotti

doi:10.11647/OBP.0366

Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies: An Introduction

Ibo R. van de Poel (Editor)
, Lily E. Frank (Editor)
, Julia Hermann (Editor)
, Jeroen K.G. Hopster (Editor)
, Dominic Lenzi (Editor)
, Sven R. Nyholm (Editor)
, Behnam Taebi (Editor)
, Elena Ziliotti (Editor)

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Abstract

Technologies shape who we are, how we organize our societies and how we relate to nature. For example, social media challenges democracy; artificial intelligence raises the question of what is unique to humans; and the possibility to create artificial wombs may affect notions of motherhood and birth. Some have suggested that we address global warming by engineering the climate, but how does this impact our responsibility to future generations and our relation to nature?
This book shows how technologies can be socially and conceptually disruptive and investigates how to come to terms with this disruptive potential.
Four technologies are studied: social media, social robots, climate engineering and artificial wombs. The authors highlight the disruptive potential of these technologies, and the new questions this raises. The book also discusses responses to conceptual disruption, like conceptual engineering, the deliberate revision of concepts.

Original language	English
Publisher	Open Book Publishers
Number of pages	186
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-80511-057-6
ISBN (Print)	978-1-80511-016-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0366
Publication status	Published - 5 Sept 2023

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SDG 13 Climate Action

Keywords

technology
artificial intelligence
artificial womb
climate engineering
social media
Climate engineering
Social robots
Technology
Social media
Artificial wombs
Society
Artificial intelligence

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