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The Ethics Gap in the Engineering of the Future : Moral Challenges for the Technology of Tomorrow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stelios, Spyridon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Engineering ethics.
- Artificial intelligence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leeds : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024.
- Summary:
- Challenging readers to think about our moral compasses and the multifaceted impact of technology on our everyday lives, this collection is an insightful look into engineering ethics and the technology of tomorrow.
- Contents:
- Cover
- The Ethics Gap in the Engineering of the Future
- The Ethics Gap in the Engineering of the Future: Moral Challenges for the Technology of Tomorrow
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Prolegomena: Mind the Gap! Now and for Ever
- 1 - Artificial Intelligence
- 1. Who Should Obey Asimov's Laws of Robotics? A Question of Responsibility
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Responsibility
- Asimov's Laws of Robotics Directed at Humans
- Application on a Hypothesised Real-Case Contemporary Situation
- Application on Imagined Future Scenarios
- Conclusions
- References
- 2. Criminal Justice in the Age of AI: Addressing Bias in Predictive Algorithms Used by Courts
- Domains of Algorithmic Decision Systems
- Recidivism Risk Assessment Instruments
- ProPublica's Study COMPAS
- Algorithmic Biases and Debiasing
- The Problems With the COMPAS Algorithm
- Conclusions and Further Studies
- 3. Ethical Challenges in the New Era of Intelligent Manufacturing Systems
- The Advent of AI and Intelligent Manufacturing
- Ethical Considerations in Machine Learning in Manufacturing
- Examples
- Key Ethical Challenges in ML-Integrated Manufacturing
- The Imperative of Proactive Ethical Engagement
- Transparency in ML Systems
- The Imperative of Transparency
- Challenges to Achieving Transparency
- Strategies for Enhancing Transparency
- Reliability of ML Systems
- The Criticality of Reliable ML
- Consequences of System Failures
- Measures to Enhance System Reliability
- Accountability for ML Failures
- Navigating the Complexity of Accountability
- Ethical Implications of AR/VR in Industrial Production
- Data Privacy and Security in AR/VR Systems
- The Challenge of Privacy in the AR/VR Landscape.
- Risks of Personal Data Misuse
- Securing AR/VR Data
- Psychological Impacts and Gamification in AR/VR
- Understanding the Psychological Effects
- Gamification: A Double-Edged Sword
- Ethical Framework for AR/VR Technologies in Industry
- Ethical Implications of Digital Twins in Manufacturing
- Examples in Manufacturing
- The Ethical Landscape of Digital Twins as Cyberphysical Systems
- The Role of Digital Twins in Manufacturing
- Ethical Challenges in Cyberphysical Integration
- Digitization of Human Elements and Its Implications
- The Concept of Digitizing Human Aspects
- Potential Risks and Ethical Concerns
- Ethical Framework for Digital Twin Technology
- Ethical Dimensions of Human-Robot Collaboration in Manufacturing
- Navigating the Coexistence of Humans and AI-Enabled Coworkers
- The Rise of AI-Enabled Coworkers in Manufacturing
- Transition to Collaborative Work Environments
- Safeguarding Physical and Psychological Health in HRC
- Ensuring Personnel Safety
- Addressing Psychological Impacts
- Socio-Economic Implications of HRC
- Potential Job Displacement and Inequality
- Dehumanization Concerns in the Workplace
- Ethical Framework for Human-Robot Collaboration
- Epilogue: Charting an Ethical Course in Intelligent Manufacturing
- 4. From Croesus to Computers: Logic of Perverse Instantiation
- Twisting Wishes and Instantiating Perversely
- Aligning Intensions and Extensions
- Genies Once and Genies in the Future
- Legacy of Socrates
- 5. The Gradual Unavoidable Colonization of the Lifeworld by Technology
- Lebenswelt: the Conceptual Origins
- Colonization
- Communicative Action
- Lebenswelt and Technology
- Intelligent Machines
- Future, ΑΙ and the Ethical Factor
- Conclusion or the Unbearable Complexity of Lebenswelt.
- References
- 2 - Biotechnology
- 6. Ethical Aspects of Promises and Perils of Synthetic Biology
- What Is Synthetic Biology - In Search of a Definition
- A Brief History of Synthetic Biology
- Creating Artificial Life From Scratch - Minimal Genome Project
- Potential Benefits and Ethical Issues of Synthetic Biology
- More Efficient Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals
- Energy Production - Biofuels
- Ethical Issues of Synthetic Biology
- Issue of Biosafety
- Issue of Biosecurity
- Synthetic Biology Regulation
- Conclusion
- 7. Adapting (Bio)ethics to Technology and Vice Versa: When to Fight and When to Collaborate With Artificial Intelligence
- When Did Things Go Wrong? A Brief History of AI
- What Are We Really Afraid of?
- The First Problematic Intermezzo: Consciousness and AI7
- Another Problematic Intermezzo: Empathy and AI9
- Higher Education and AI
- Epharmology: A New Science Based on Precaution32
- The Ethics of Using AI
- Where Science Is Going: The Play in Which We Decided to Participate
- AI Open Questions: Towards an Inconvenient Truth
- 3 - Space
- 8. Are Space Technologies Untimely?
- Setting up the Problem
- The Targeting of Technologies of the Anthropocene
- Tensions Within the Skeptical Complex
- The Partial Merger of Space Skepticism With Political Activism
- Timeliness and Risk
- Acknowledgements
- 9. Moral Vistas to Xenic Beyonds: Fostering Moral Imagination to Pre-empt Monsterization in Future Encounters With Extrater ...
- Introduction: Outer Space, Monsters, Aliens, Anticipation and Moral Imagination
- The Monster: an Inhabitant of Moral Imagination and a Catalyst of Transition.
- Assisting a Moral Transition Into a World With Aliens: Unfamiliar Futures and Beneficial Monsters in Simulated Liminality
- Epilogue: Here Be Monsters
- 10. Planning for the Future in Space - With or Without Radical Biomedical Human Enhancement?
- Human Enhancement and the Type of Space Mission and Its Rationale
- Human Enhancement and Vulnerable People on Earth
- Human Enhancement and Vulnerable People in Space
- 11. Building Better (Space) Babies: Bioastronautics, Bioethics, and Off-World Ectogenesis
- Historical Perspectives on Reproduction in Space: Institutional Sexism and the Positioning of Women's Bodies as the "Problem"
- Off-World Pregnancy Risks
- Hazard 1: Space Radiation
- Hazard 2: Isolation and Confinement
- Hazard 3: Distance From Earth
- Hazard 4: Gravity Fields
- Hazard 5: Hostile/Closed Environments
- Potential Benefits of Using Ectogenesis for Space Settlements
- A Reproductive Bioethics Framework for Space
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 9781837976355
- 183797635X
- OCLC:
- 1472981395
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