A Companion to Digital Ethics (eBook)

Luciano Floridi, Mariarosaria Taddeo (Herausgeber)

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2025
737 Seiten
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-394-24080-7 (ISBN)

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A compilation of cutting-edge, comprehensive insights into digital ethics from leading scholars

As digital technologies shape every aspect of today's society, ethical considerations have never been more pressing. In A Companion to Digital Ethics, editors Luciano Floridi and Mariarosaria Taddeo bring together leading experts to analyse key ethical challenges posed by artificial intelligence, privacy, cybersecurity, cyberwarfare, sustainability, digital consent, and many other topics. With a multidisciplinary approach, this authoritative volume introduces all the relevant topics in digital ethics clearly and accessibly, integrating insights from philosophy, law, computer science, and the social sciences.

Unlike other collections that focus on specialised research or introductory overviews, this Companion strikes a critical balance-offering a systematic, comprehensive, simple yet rigorous examination of digital ethics that is both conceptually rich and practically relevant. Each chapter can be read as part of the whole or independently. Throughout the book, the contributing authors equip the reader with diverse perspectives for navigating ethical dilemmas in the evolving digital landscape, with an essential list of references and further readings.

Integrating real-world examples and case studies throughout, A Companion to Digital Ethics:

• Explores the ethical value and implications of digital technologies and their applications
• Offers clear and precise analysis of both current and potential ethical challenges
• Includes discussions of ethical issues in contexts of technology governance and digital law
• Helps professionals and policymakers implement ethical principles in AI and digital technologies
• Contains authoritative and cutting-edge chapters, edited by two leading experts in digital ethics

Whether used in academic courses or professional discussions on responsible digital innovation, A Companion to Digital Ethics is an essential guide to understanding and addressing the ethical questions of the digital age. It is a must-have resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students in any academic discipline, as well as policymakers and practitioners seeking to implement ethical frameworks for emerging technologies.

LUCIANO FLORIDI is the John K. Castle Professor in the Practice of Cognitive Science and the Founding Director of the Digital Ethics Center, Yale University. One of the most authoritative voices of contemporary philosophy, he is the founder of the philosophy of information, and one of the major interpreters of the digital revolution. His recent books include The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and The Green and The Blue - Naive Ideas to Improve Politics in the Digital Age. Among his many awards, in 2022 he was made Knight of the Grand Cross OMRI for his foundational work in philosophy.

MARIAROSARIA TADDEO is Professor of Digital Ethics and Defence Technologies at the Oxford Internet Institute of the University of Oxford. Her work focuses on the ethics and governance of digital technologies, particularly of digital technologies used for national security and defence purposes. Her work has been published in Nature, Nature Machine Intelligence, Science, and Science Robotics. She is the author of The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Defence. She serves on the Ethics Advisory Panel of the UK Ministry of Defence and as editor-in-chief of Minds and Machines.

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Notes on Contributors

Marcel Becker (1961) is Associate Professor of Ethics at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He wrote his dissertation on virtue ethics and ethics of war and peace. Over the past decades, he has been working in the field of applied ethics, particularly ethics of professionals. He has written books on the ethics of public administration and judicial ethics, and is a member of several advisory boards in professional ethics. With the emergence of the information age, his research focuses on how flows of digital information put professional standards under pressure. A distinction might be made between two (of course interrelated) challenges. On the one hand, there is the topic of (in)approptiate flows of information, which Becker investigated in his book on digital ethics. In this area, privacy is the core issue. On the other hand, there are challenges related to artificial intelligence (AI), particularly the demarcation of tasks and responsibilities between human intelligence and AI. This is the topic of his next book.

Ana Beduschi is a Full Professor of Law with a Personal Chair at the University of Exeter. Her research and teaching focus on international human rights law, technology (including big data and artificial intelligence), data protection and international migration and refugee law. Professor Beduschi holds a PhD in Law (2011) from the University of Montpellier 1, France. She also received an LLB degree in Law (2003), an LLM degree in International and European Law (Maîtrise, 2004), and an LLM degree in European Human Rights Law (Master 2, 2005) from the University of Montpellier 1, France. She also holds an LLB degree in Law from the University of the State of São Paulo (UNESP), Brazil, obtained in 2000. She was admitted to the Bar as an Attorney‐at‐Law in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2001.

Oliver Buchholz is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Health Ethics & Policy Lab of ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where he is leading the project ‘MLS2: Machine Learning, Science, and Society’. Prior to that, he received a PhD in philosophy from the University of Tübingen, Germany. His dissertation investigates the opacity of AI and has been published as a monograph entitled ‘Explaining Artificial Intelligence. From Epistemological Foundations to Practical Consequences’. Overall, Oliver’s research focuses on the methodological foundations of AI and aims to derive guidelines for a responsible use of that technology, especially in scientific applications.

Carlotta Buttaboni is a Postgraduate Research Associate at Yale University’s Digital Ethics Center (USA), where she conducts research under the direction of Professor Luciano Floridi within the de Vries‐Sherif Program on the Future of Humanity and Technology. Her research examines the ethical, legal and social implications of artificial intelligence (AI), with a specific focus on EU digital regulations and data governance. She is especially interested in the effectiveness of digital rights as mechanisms for translating human rights into the digital environment. Carlotta holds a Single‐Cycle Master’s Degree in Law with First‐Class Honours from the University of Bologna (Italy), where she also serves as Editor‐in‐Chief of the University of Bologna Law Review, a student‐run, diamond open‐access and double‐blind peer‐review law journal owned by the Department of Legal Studies of the University of Bologna (Italy).

Simone Centellegher is a researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento, Italy), part of the Mobile and Social Computing Lab (MobS). Holding a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Trento, his research lies at the intersection of computational social science, network science and human behaviour analysis. He specialises in leveraging large‐scale mobile phone data to study mobility patterns and uncover insights into societal and individual dynamics. Recent work includes analyzing urban mobility during COVID‐19, understanding the impact of unemployment on mobility and enhancing out‐of‐routine mobility predictability. He has contributed to scientific committees for conferences such as IC2S2, CCS and CS2Italy.

Josh Cowls gained his PhD in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences from the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute in 2023. His thesis focused on the governance of app stores as a form of platform governance. His other major research interests include the ethics and politics of AI, and the discursive legitimation of platform power. Since obtaining his PhD, Josh has worked on AI policy in the public and private sectors, including at the UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, and at Google.

Viltė Kristina Dessers is a postdoctoral research associate, a member of the Research Management Committee at KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) and a visiting assistant professor at Vilnius University (VU), Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.

Viltė is specialised in international, European Union law, human rights, intellectual property and technology law. Her current research focuses on technological developments and their legal implications, particularly on the implications for trademark law and access to justice. Viltė is also managing a number of research projects funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and the European Commission (EC), and teaches intellectual property and technology law.

Before joining KU Leuven Viltė was practising law at top‐tier pan‐Baltic law firms where she was advised clients on intellectual property, privacy, data protection, consumer and media law.

Elizabeth Edenberg is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Baruch College, the City University of New York. She specialises in political philosophy, political epistemology and the ethics of technology. Her research focuses on using philosophical tools to inform contemporary challenges facing society. These range from divisions over the demands of justice, to political disagreement, to the role of technology in shaping our future. She is also part of an interdisciplinary team of researchers working on ways to better secure individuals’ rights in the current data ecosystem by leveraging the power of the collective. Her articles have appeared leading journals in philosophy, computer science and science and technology studies. She also co‐edited Political Epistemology, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2021.

Eveline Gutzwiller‐Helfenfinger is a Professor of Educational and Social Sciences at the Schwyz University of Teacher Education, Switzerland. She worked at several universities in Germany and Switzerland, including the University of Leipzig, the Interdisciplinary Center for Integration and Migration Research at the University of Duisburg‐Essen and the Universities of Fribourg and Bern. Gutzwiller‐Helfenfinger’s main research and teaching interests include socio‐moral development (and education) across the lifespan and (student) teachers’ professional development as well as the intersection of the two areas. Special foci include school bullying and its moral dimensions, the prevention of and early intervention in school bullying, teachers’ professional ethos, the role of social‐emotional competencies for teaching and learning, Happy Victimising in adolescence and adulthood and moral disengagement and aggression. Gutzwiller‐Helfenfinger was a coordinator of EARLI SIG 13 (Moral and Democratic Education) from 2019 to 2023 and won the Maslovaty Award for the Best EARLI SIG 13 Senior Researcher Publication in 2015. She has been teaching further education courses on bullying prevention for (student) teachers and school teams since 2016.

Marcello Ienca holds the TUM Professorship of Ethics of AI and Neuroscience at the Technical University of Munich, with a joint appointment at the School of Medicine and Health and the School of Social Sciences and Technology. He also serves as Deputy Director of the TUM Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine, where he leads the Ethics of AI and Neuroscience group. His research focuses on the ethical, legal and social implications of artificial intelligence and neurotechnology, particularly in health, medicine and mental life. Professor Ienca serves as Head of Neuroethics at the International Brain Initiative and is an appointed expert to several international organisations. At UNESCO, he was nominated by the Director‐General to serve on the ad hoc expert group drafting the first global recommendation on the ethics of neurotechnology. He has also advised the Council of Europe, UNICEF and the OECD. He has authored over 90 peer‐reviewed articles and numerous policy reports. His work appears in Nature, Neuron and The Lancet Digital Health, and has been featured by The Lancet, The New York Times, The Atlantic and the BBC.

Bruno Lepri is a senior researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento, Italy), where he leads the Mobile and Social Computing Lab (MobS). He has recently launched the Center for Computational Social Science and Human Dynamics, a joint initiative between Fondazione Bruno Kessler and the University of Trento. Since July 2022, he has been the Chief Scientific Officer of Ipazia, a new company active in AI solutions for financial services and energy management. From 2019 to 2022, Bruno was also the Chief AI Scientist of ManpowerGroup, where he has collaborated with the global innovation team on AI projects...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.8.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: AI ethics • AI governance • applied ethics AI, digital responsibility • cybersecurity • cyberwarfare ethics • Data Ethics • Digital ethics • ethical AI • Internet Ethics • Philosophy of Technology • Privacy ethics • Responsible innovation • Technology Governance
• ISBN-10: 1-394-24080-5 / 1394240805
• ISBN-13: 978-1-394-24080-7 / 9781394240807