Improving Technology Through Ethics (2024) (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)

Synopsis

This book deals with the ethics of technology and addresses specific ethical problems related to some emerging technologies, mainly in the field of computer science (from machine learning models to extracting value from data to human–robot interaction). The contributions are authored mainly by scholars in ICT and other engineering fields who reflect on ethical and societal issues emerging from their own research activity. Thus, rather uniquely, the work overcomes the traditional divide between pure ethical theory that disregards what practitioners do and mere R&D practice that ignores what theorists conceptualize. Conversely, the reader is enabled to understand what ethics means when it is actually put into work by engineering researchers. The book arises from a joint program between MIT and Politecnico di Milano aimed at training early career researchers in addressing the ethical issues of technology and critically reflecting on the social impacts of the emerging, and even disruptive, technologies they are currently developing through their novel research. Overall, it aims at spreading the task of developing technologies that, from the beginning, are designed to be responsible for human life, society, and nature.

Copyright:

2024

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9783031529627

Related ISBNs:

9783031529610

Publisher:

Springer Nature Switzerland

Date of Addition:

03/22/24

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The Editor

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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Categories:

Nonfiction, Science, Computers and Internet, Technology, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy, Sociology

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Edited by:

Simona Chiodo

Edited by:

David Kaiser

Edited by:

Julie Shah

Edited by:

Paolo Volonté