Introduction to the ethics of emerging technologies
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xiii, 227 pp.
"Offers a set of lecture and seminar course materials for teaching ethics of emerging technologies. It covers the field in a comprehensive and accessible manner, emphasizing storytelling and examples, practical approaches and tools, and interactive assignments. The book addresses historical and current discourses, both academic and practical, related to the ethics of emerging technologies. This includes a basic introduction to normative ethics and applied ethics of technology, an accessible entry point to theories of technology and normativity, particular technological themes (engineering ethics, ethics of AI, and ethics of biotechnologies), as well as societal contexts in which emerging technologies play a pivotal role (citizenship, sustainability, and global inequality)." (Publisher description)
1 CHALLENGES OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, 1
What Is Ethics of Emerging Technologies? -- What Is at Stake? -- Structure of the Book
2 FROM EMERGING TECHNOLOGY TO ETHICS, 15
Hippocrates -- Oppenheimer -- Wiener -- Practitioners’ Ethics
3 FROM ETHICS TO EMERGING TECHNOLOGY, 31
Virtue -- Duty -- Utility -- Applying Ethics
4 TECHNOLOGY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION, 49
Alienation -- Instrumental Reason -- Enframing -- Discipline and Control Totalitarianism -- Sexism and Cyborgs
5 VALUES AND TECHNOLOGY, 67
Actor Network -- Human-Technology-World -- Value Sensitive Design
6 RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION, 81
Responsibility and Innovation -- Anticipation -- Ethics in Design -- Analysis of Impacts
7 UNCERTAINTY AND RISKS, 99
The Assessment and Management of Risk -- The Precautionary Principle -- Standards and Regulations
8 THINKING MACHINES, 119
Big Data -- Artificial Life -- AI Principles -- Standards and Regulations
9 LIFE MAKING, 143
Bio(tech) Ethics -- Human Enhancement -- Standards and Regulations
10 CITIZENSHIP AND POLITICS, 163
Citizenship and Technology -- Civic Virtue in the Digital Age
11 CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABILITY, 181
Environmental Ethics and Technology -- The Anthropocene
12 EMERGING TECHNOLOGY AND INEQUALITY, 195
Inequality Through Technology Use -- Conditions of Production -- Power in the Workplace -- Distributing the Benefits and Costs
What Is Ethics of Emerging Technologies? -- What Is at Stake? -- Structure of the Book
2 FROM EMERGING TECHNOLOGY TO ETHICS, 15
Hippocrates -- Oppenheimer -- Wiener -- Practitioners’ Ethics
3 FROM ETHICS TO EMERGING TECHNOLOGY, 31
Virtue -- Duty -- Utility -- Applying Ethics
4 TECHNOLOGY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION, 49
Alienation -- Instrumental Reason -- Enframing -- Discipline and Control Totalitarianism -- Sexism and Cyborgs
5 VALUES AND TECHNOLOGY, 67
Actor Network -- Human-Technology-World -- Value Sensitive Design
6 RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION, 81
Responsibility and Innovation -- Anticipation -- Ethics in Design -- Analysis of Impacts
7 UNCERTAINTY AND RISKS, 99
The Assessment and Management of Risk -- The Precautionary Principle -- Standards and Regulations
8 THINKING MACHINES, 119
Big Data -- Artificial Life -- AI Principles -- Standards and Regulations
9 LIFE MAKING, 143
Bio(tech) Ethics -- Human Enhancement -- Standards and Regulations
10 CITIZENSHIP AND POLITICS, 163
Citizenship and Technology -- Civic Virtue in the Digital Age
11 CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABILITY, 181
Environmental Ethics and Technology -- The Anthropocene
12 EMERGING TECHNOLOGY AND INEQUALITY, 195
Inequality Through Technology Use -- Conditions of Production -- Power in the Workplace -- Distributing the Benefits and Costs
