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Beschreibung
It seems that just about every new technology that we bring to bear on improving our lives brings with it some downside, side effect or unintended consequence.

These issues can pose very real and growing ethical problems for all of us. For example, automated facial recognition can make life easier and safer for us – but it also poses huge issues with regard to privacy, ownership of data and even identity theft. How do we understand and frame these debates, and work out strategies at personal and governmental levels?

Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics addresses one of today’s most pressing problems: how to create and use tools and technologies to maximize benefits and minimize harms?

Drawing on the author’s experience as a technologist, political risk analyst and historian, the book offers a practical and cross-disciplinary approach that will inspire anyone creating, investing in or regulating technology, and it will empower all readers to better hold technology to account.
It seems that just about every new technology that we bring to bear on improving our lives brings with it some downside, side effect or unintended consequence.

These issues can pose very real and growing ethical problems for all of us. For example, automated facial recognition can make life easier and safer for us – but it also poses huge issues with regard to privacy, ownership of data and even identity theft. How do we understand and frame these debates, and work out strategies at personal and governmental levels?

Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics addresses one of today’s most pressing problems: how to create and use tools and technologies to maximize benefits and minimize harms?

Drawing on the author’s experience as a technologist, political risk analyst and historian, the book offers a practical and cross-disciplinary approach that will inspire anyone creating, investing in or regulating technology, and it will empower all readers to better hold technology to account.
Über den Autor
By Stephanie Hare
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Humans, not cogs in the machine
We begin as data
Why I wrote this book
A short guide to technology ethics

Chapter 1: Is technology neutral?
The debate
Between the bone and the bomb
Technology is more than tools
Where does responsibility enter the equation?
Conclusion

Chapter 2: Where do we draw the line?
How do we draw the line (and test that it is in the right place)?
Who draws the line – and who decides when that line has been crossed?
Conclusion

Chapter 3: Facial recognition technology
Metaphysics: what is facial recognition technology?
Epistemology: how can we learn about facial recognition technology?
Logic: how do we know what we know about facial recognition?
Political philosophy: how does facial recognition technology affect power dynamics?
Aesthetics: what is our experience of facial recognition technology?
Ethics: is facial recognition technology a good thing or a bad thing?
Conclusion

Chapter 4: Pandemic? There’s an app for that

Immunity passports
Exposure notification apps
Quick response (QR) code check-in
Vaccine passports for domestic use
Conclusion

Conclusion
Towards a culture of technology ethics
The problem with problems
Technology ethics in action
Do we need a Hippocratic Oath for technology?

Glossary
Notes

Further reading

Acknowledgements

About the author

Figures

Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Importe, Informatik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781907994975
ISBN-10: 1907994971
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Hare, Stephanie
Hersteller: London School of Economics and Political Science
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 26 mm
Von/Mit: Stephanie Hare
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.02.2022
Gewicht: 0,462 kg
Artikel-ID: 121177548

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