Book tips - Digital ethics
Digital ethics
Technology should improve our lives. Nevertheless, new achievements are often viewed critically by our contemporaries. With digitalization, society is facing profound changes that are still difficult to assess. This raises new questions. SAP is facing up to these challenges and was the first European IT company to adopt ethical principles for dealing with artificial intelligence. Other organizations have also recognized that digitalization is not just a question of technical feasibility and that an interdisciplinary approach is the order of the day. The German government has founded a Digital Council for this purpose. The Working Group of Philosophizing Engineers and Natural Sciences (www.aphin.de) is also working intensively on this topic. In the preamble to its ethical principles, SAP calls on customers, partners, employees, authorities and society to engage in dialog. We are happy to pass on this call and provide the knowledge base in the book tips in this issue.
" And please don't ask me about morality. I don't care about morals " -Marius Müller-Westernhagen
Source: E-3 Magazine - November 2018 issue
Digital humanism
Can computers do everything they can? Autonomous private transport and care robots, software-controlled customer correspondence and social media, big data economics and smart bots, Industry 4.0: digitalization has enormous economic, but also cultural and ethical effects. In the form of a bridge between philosophy and science fiction, this book develops the philosophical foundations of a digital humanism for which the distinction between human thought, feeling and action on the one hand and software-controlled, algorithmic processes on the other is central. The authors present an ethics for the age of artificial intelligence as an alternative to the Silicon Valley ideology, for which AI threatens to become a substitute for religion.
The web of digitalization
Will robots soon take over? Does humanity still have a future? And what does this have to do with the spread of populism? The author spans an arc from digitalization to current socio-political upheavals. In his analysis, the author links digitalization with political, historical, economic, sociological and philosophical issues.
Basic questions of machine ethics
Can machines act morally, are they moral actors - and are they allowed to? The completely new approach of machine ethics deals with these and similar questions. Catrin Misselhorn explains the basics of this new discipline at the interface of philosophy, computer science and robotics, using examples such as autonomous weapons systems, care robots and autonomous driving.
Machine ethics
The book examines the particular ethical problems raised by the development of autonomously "acting" and "communicating" media systems. Since they not only carry out processes independently, but also control them, the question arises as to what extent they can be normatively oriented in this "acting" and "deciding".
Dawn of a new era
Richard Kraft, professor of rhetoric in Tübingen, is invited to Silicon Valley to take part in a scientific competition. Based on Leibniz's answer to the question of theodicy, Kraft is asked to give an 18-minute presentation explaining why everything that exists is good and why we can still improve it. One million dollars will be awarded for the best answer.
