Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies: An Introduction

Ibo van de Poel (Editor), Lily Eva Frank (Editor), Julia Hermann (Editor), Jeroen Hopster (Editor), Dominic Lenzi (Editor), Sven 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 languageEnglish
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Number of pages186
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-80511-057-6, 978-1-80064-987-3, 978-1-80511-050-7, 978-1-78374-789-4
ISBN (Print)978-1-80511-016-3, 978-1-80511-017-0
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Publication statusPublished - 5 Sept 2023

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  • 1: Introduction

    Poel, I. V. D., Hopster, J., Löhr, G., Ziliotti, E., Buijsman, S. & Brey, P., 5 Sept 2023, Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies: An Introduction.

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  • 4. Climate Engineering and the Future of Justice

    Taebi, B., Lenzi, D., Buhr, L., Claassen, K., Gerola, A., Hofbauer, B., Paiusco, E. & Rijssenbeek, J., 5 Sept 2023, Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies: An Introduction. Open Book Publishers, p. 83-112 30 p.

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  • 6. Conceptual Disruption and the Ethics of Technology

    Hopster, J., Brey, P., Klenk, M., Löhr, G., Marchiori, S., Lundgren, B. & Scharp, K., 5 Sept 2023, Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies: An Introduction. p. 141-162

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