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Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies: An Introduction
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 Technological Singularity
An introduction to the idea of the singularity and investigation of a range of scenarios and philosophical and pragmatic questions. The author considers what the existence of superintelligent machines could mean for such matters as personhood, responsibility, rights, and identity.
Smart University
Using historical and textual analysis of administrative discourses, university policies, conference proceedings, grant solicitations, news reports, tech industry marketing materials, and product demonstrations, Weinberg evaluates how education technology and digital tools impact student autonomy and privacy.
FinTech and Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development
This book investigates how smart technologies can play a crucial role in the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The power of AI to reduce poverty and increase food security, the implications of digital innovations for education, the impact of AI on clean transport, the role of FinTech in mitigating climate change, and ways in which AI can aid financial inclusion are all discussed.
This Is Technology Ethics
Requiring no previous background in the subject, this reader-friendly volume explores ethical questions concerning artificial intelligence, robots, self-driving cars, brain implants, social media and communication technologies, and more. Throughout the book, clear and engaging chapters describe and discuss key discussions, issues, and themes while inviting readers to develop their own perspectives on a wide range of moral and ethical questions.
Counter-Terrorism, Ethics and Technology
A collection examining drones, surveillance technologies, the use of machine learning, and related new and emerging technologies employed in counter-terrorism. Considers the ethics of such technologies and societal implications.
Technology and Sustainable Development
Using the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, this book examines AI, technology in education, gender inequality, the digital divide, and social, economic, and environmental impacts technological change.
The Ethics of Privacy and Surveillance
Privacy matters because it shields us from possible abuses of power. In the age of AI and the internet it is more important than ever. Carissa Veliz offers a much needed philosophical account of privacy by exploring five basic questions: What is privacy? Where does it come from? Why does it matter? What should we do about it? Where are we now?
Food, Genetic Engineering and Philosophy of Technology
This book describes specific, well-known controversies in the genetic modification debate and connects them to deeper philosophical issues in philosophy of technology. It discusses biotechnology, the future of food, agriculture, and society.
