The ethics gap in the engineering of the future : moral challenges for the technology of tomorrow

Advances in computer science, artificial intelligence and data management have made engineering a dynamic and rapidly expanding industry. But have these advances enabled the manifestation of wrongdoing? If so, what can we do to counter this? The Ethics Gap in the Engineering of the Future challenges...

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Other Authors Stelios, Spyridon (Editor), Theologou, Kostas (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2024]
Subjects
Engineering ethics.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781837976379
DOI10.1108/9781837976355
Physical Description1 online resource (256 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Prolegomena: Mind the gap! Now and for ever / Spyridon Stelios and Kostas Theologou
  • Section 1. Artificial intelligence
  • Chapter 1. Who should obey asimov's laws of robotics? A question of responsibility / Maria Hedlund and Erik Persson
  • Chapter 2. Criminal justice in the age of ai: Addressing bias in predictive algorithms used by courts / Rahulrajan Karthikeyan, Chieh Yi, and Moses Boudourides
  • Chapter 3. Ethical challenges in the new era of intelligent manufacturing systems / Emmanouil Stathatos, Panorios Benardos, and George-Christopher Vosniakos
  • Chapter 4. From croesus to computers: Logic of perverse instantiation / Goran Rujevic
  • Chapter 5. The gradual unavoidable colonization of the lifeworld by technology / Kostas Theologou and Spyridon Stelios
  • Section 2. Biotechnology
  • Chapter 6. Ethical aspects of promises and perils of synthetic biology / Ivica Kelam
  • Chapter 7. Adapting (bio)ethics to technology and vice versa: When to fight and when to collaborate with artificial intelligence / Iva Rincic and Amir Muzur
  • Section 3. Space
  • Chapter 8. Are space technologies untimely? / Tony Milligan
  • Chapter 9. Moral vistas to xenic beyonds: Fostering moral imagination to pre-empt monsterization in future encounters with extraterrestrial life / George Profitiliotis
  • Chapter 10. Planning for the future in space - with or without radical biomedical human enhancement? / Rakhat Abylkasymova and Konrad Szocik
  • Chapter 11. Building better (space) babies: Bioastronautics, bioethics and off-world ectogenesis / Evie Kendal.

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