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Relationships
In this chapter, I analyze the impact of MAI on relationships as well as roles within healthcare. I identify three crucial relationships, the...
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Ethical Foundations: Medical Ethics and Data Ethics
This chapter outlines basic concepts in medical ethics and data ethics. It aims to provide some kind of orientation regarding the complex issues,...
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The Democratic Drift
The aim of this chapter is to describe and analyse the main causes underlying the emergence and rapid development of what is referred to here as...
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A Critical Civil Society: An Ethical Framework to Control the Power of Algorithms
Given that any democratic proposal must account for the institutional skeleton that sustains it, the aim of this article is to show that this...
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Institutional Design for the Development of Algorithmic Democracy
This last chapter presents several examples of how it is possible to create public spheres within the institutions of civil society, especially in...
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Moral Learning by Algorithms: The Possibility of Develo** Morally Intelligent Technology
The aim of this chapter is to explore the possibility of moral machine learningMoral machine learning (MML) and its possible alternatives. We begin...
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Digital Twins: On Algorithm-Based Political Participation
The aim of this chapter is to critically analyse the challenges facing the application of participatory processes based on Artificial intelligence...
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The Second Age of Artificial Intelligence
The aim of this chapter is to discuss the impact, characteristics and challenges underlying the advent of the Second Age of Artificial Intelligence....
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What Improving Technology Through Ethics Means
The hendiadys of technology and ethics is neither novel nor what we really need. Even though dialogue between ethicsEthics and technology, namely the...
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Poor Data Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa and Implications on Ethical AI Development
This chapter explores the issue of poor data qualityData quality in Sub-Saharan AfricaSub-Saharan Africa and its potential impact on the development...
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An Ethnographer Among the Engineers: Doing STS at a Technical University
This chapter discusses the current trend to integrate perspectives from the social sciences and humanities in engineering researchResearch and...
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Consciousness, Theory, and Mental Appearance
I contrast one-factor views of consciousness with two-factor views. On two-factor views a state’s being conscious consists in something distinct from...
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Hypnotic AI: The Altered States of Media Matter
This chapter probes the idea of the artificial mind as a condition distinct from human categories of thinking and sees what it is. For that purpose,...
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Writing the Human Narrative
In June of 2022, we entered a new age, an Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence. That month, OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research lab,...
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The Science of Mindlessness
The question of where technology might end and we might begin is not actually about the capabilities of artificially intelligent machines but how we...
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The Duty to Promote Digital Minimalism in Group Agents
In this chapter, we turn our attention to the effects of the attention economy on our ability to act autonomously as a group. We begin by clarifying...
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The Duty to Promote Digital Minimalism in Others I: Duties of Virtue
In this chapter, we introduce the duty to be an attention ecologist, one who promotes digital minimalism in others. After arguing for the existence...
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An African Social Constructivism of Technology
This chapter develops social constructivist perspectives as conceptual lenses to examine and cement African technology. In contrast to technological...
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Technologising Tradition or Traditionalising Technology?
This chapter examines the intersections of modern technologies with diverse dimensions of African culture, including oral traditions, languages,...
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AI-Based Technological Interventions for Tackling Child Malnutrition
The persistent malnutrition crisis among children in India remains a cause for significant concern. In the face of rapidly advancing technology,...