Hacking Digital Ethics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andréa Belliger ◽  
David J. Krieger
Keyword(s):  
Digital Ethics

scholarly journals Philosophical foundations for digital ethics and AI Ethics: a dignitarian approach

AI and Ethics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Hanna ◽  
Emre Kazim
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Digital Ethics ◽  
Human Happiness ◽  
Ai Ethics ◽  
The Impact

AbstractAI Ethics is a burgeoning and relatively new field that has emerged in response to growing concerns about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on human individuals and their social institutions. In turn, AI ethics is a part of the broader field of digital ethics, which addresses similar concerns generated by the development and deployment of new digital technologies. Here, we tackle the important worry that digital ethics in general, and AI ethics in particular, lack adequate philosophical foundations. In direct response to that worry, we formulate and rationally justify some basic concepts and principles for digital ethics/AI ethics, all drawn from a broadly Kantian theory of human dignity. Our argument, which is designed to be relatively compact and easily accessible, is presented in ten distinct steps: (1) what “digital ethics” and “AI ethics” mean, (2) refuting the dignity-skeptic, (3) the metaphysics of human dignity, (4) human happiness or flourishing, true human needs, and human dignity, (5) our moral obligations with respect to all human real persons, (6) what a natural automaton or natural machine is, (7) why human real persons are not natural automata/natural machines: because consciousness is a form of life, (8) our moral obligations with respect to the design and use of artificial automata or artificial machines, aka computers, and digital technology more generally, (9) what privacy is, why invasions of digital privacy are morally impermissible, whereas consensual entrances into digital privacy are either morally permissible or even obligatory, and finally (10) dignitarian morality versus legality, and digital ethics/AI ethics. We conclude by asserting our strongly-held belief that a well-founded and generally-accepted dignitarian digital ethics/AI ethics is of global existential importance for humanity.

Ethics for a Digital Age (Vol. II) [Book Review]

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Stones
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Ethics ◽  
Technology Ethics ◽  
Field Of Inquiry

The second volume of Ethics for a Digital Age edited by Bastiaan Vanacker and Don Heider (2018) highlights research presented at the fifth and sixth Annual International Symposia on Digital Ethics. The volume features ten essays organized under three banner topics that include 1) Trust, Privacy, and Corporate Responsibility; 2) Technology, Ethics, and the Shifting Role of Journalism; and 3) Ethics and Ontology. Together, the essays aim to invigorate conversations about ethical issues in professional and philosophical contexts. In this review, I first provide a synopsis of each section and its corresponding essays to give readers a sense of the depth and breadth of topics covered in the volume. I conclude the review by identifying themes that unite the essays and broadly contribute to this robust field of inquiry.

Ethical Standards and ‘Communication’ Technologies

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-86
Author(s):  
Onora O’Neill
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Degree Of Protection ◽  
Digital Ethics ◽  
Personal A ◽  
Personal Content ◽  
Speech Content

Discussion of the ethics of digital communication often focuses on the speech content communicated, rather than on the speech acts performed. This can be illustrated by data protection approaches to rights to privacy, which seek to prevent the reuse of personal content unless the relevant data subjects give informed consent. Unfortunately, the partition of content into personal and non-personal is insecure: personal data can sometimes be inferred from data not seen as personal. A more robust approach to digital ethics would focus on communicative action, and would query the degree of protection and above all the anonymity available to those who control and organize others’ digital communication.

Data Lives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Kitchin
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Digital Ethics ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Scientific Principles ◽  
Generate Process ◽  
The Many

How can we begin to grasp the scope and scale of our new data-rich world, and can we truly comprehend what is at stake? This book explores the intricacies of data creation and charts how data-driven technologies have become essential to how society, government and the economy work. Creatively blending scholarly analysis, biography and fiction, the book demonstrates how data are shaped by social and political forces, and the extent to which they influence our daily lives. The book begins with an overview of the sociality of data. Data-driven endeavours are as much a result of human values, desires, and social relations as they are scientific principles and technologies. The data revolution has been transforming work and the economy, the nature of consumption, the management and governance of society, how we communicate and interact with media and each other, and forms of play and leisure. Indeed, our lives are saturated with digital devices and services that generate, process, and share vast quantities of data. The book reveals the many, complex, contested ways in which data are produced and circulated, as well as the consequences of living in a data-driven world. The book concludes with an exploration as to what kind of data future we want to create and strategies for realizing our visions. It highlights the need to enact 'a digital ethics of care', and to claim and assert 'data sovereignty'. Ultimately, the book reveals our data world to be one of potential danger, but also of hope.

Digital Competence

2017 ◽  
pp. 1026-1055
Author(s):  
Edith Avni ◽  
Abraham Rotem
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Technological Literacy ◽  
Digital Literacies ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Digital Ethics ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Digital Competency ◽  
Competence Framework

This chapter presents a proposal for a conceptual framework of digital competence, which is a civil right and need and is vital for appropriate, intelligent study and functioning in the real world, through means that technology and the internet offer the citizen. Digital competence in the 2010s is a multifaceted complex of a net of literacies that have been updated, reformulated and transformed under the influence of technology. The framework of the digital competency includes eight fields of digital literacies. At the top of the net is digital ethics literacy, outlines the moral core for proper use of technology; at the base are technological literacy and digital reading and writing literacy, comprising the foundation and interface for all the digital literacies, and in between are the digital literacies in these fields: information literacy, digital visual literacy, new media literacy, communication and collaboration literacy and social media literacy. These interconnected literacies compose a synergetic complex of the digital competence framework.

Digital Ecosystem Security Issues for Organizations and Governments

2021 ◽  
pp. 204-228
Author(s):  
Heru Susanto ◽  
Leu Fang Yie ◽  
Desi Setiana ◽  
Yani Asih ◽  
Ambar Yoganingrum ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Cyber Attack ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Digital Ethics ◽  
Digital Ecosystem ◽  
Unethical Behaviors ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Ethical Approaches ◽  
The Government ◽  
Use Of The Internet

The growth of the digital ecosystem has given a sense that the rise of security implementations must be considered by every organization including governments in terms of adopting the best digital ethical approaches and awareness on the importance of ensuring privacy. Increased use of the internet has also increased matters of cyber threats and unethical behaviors. Therefore, implementation of digital ethics has become crucial to prevent or minimize the impacts of cybercrime, and so, securing sensitive information from unauthorized access has become extremely important. This study analyses and describes the future trends regarding security in digital ethics and privacy within the digital ecosystem. The results point to a relative correlation between the government and business sector and the types of attacks and that digital ethics and privacy makes up the core elements of security. Implementing cautionary steps are also necessary to prevent from any form of cyber-attack.

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