Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies : an introduction / Ibo van de Poel [and many others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poel, Ibo van de, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Androids--Moral and ethical aspects.

Androids.

Environmental engineering--Moral and ethical aspects.

Environmental engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 172 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2023.

Summary:

"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."-- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Intro

List of abbreviations

Contributor Biographies

Acknowledgements

Foreword

1. Introduction

2. Social Media and Democracy

3. Social Robots and Society

4. Climate Engineering and the Future of Justice

5. Ectogestative Technology and the Beginning of Life

6. Conceptual Disruption and the Ethics of Technology

Glossary

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.