Values for a Post-Pandemic Future

ISBN-13: 9783031084232 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 250 str.

Matthew J. Dennis;Georgy Ishmaev;Steven Umbrello

Opis

This open access book shows how value sensitive design (VSD), responsible innovation, and comprehensive engineering can guide the rapid development of technological responses to the COVID-19 crisis. Responding to the ethical challenges of data-driven technologies and other tools requires thinking about values in the context of a pandemic as well as in a post-COVID world. Instilling values must be prioritized from the beginning, not only in the emergency response to the pandemic, but in how to proceed with new societal precedents materializing, new norms of health surveillance, and new public health requirements. The contributors with expertise in VSD bridge the gap between ethical acceptability and social acceptance. By addressing ethical acceptability and societal acceptance together, VSD guides COVID-technologies in a way that strengthens their ability to fight the virus, and outlines pathways for the resolution of moral dilemmas. This volume provides diachronic reflections on the crisis response to address long-term moral consequences in light of the post-pandemic future. Both contact-tracing apps and immunity passports must work in a multi-system environment, and will be required to succeed alongside institutions, incentive structures, regulatory bodies, and current legislation. This text appeals to students, researchers and importantly, professionals in the field.

Spis treści

Chapter 1

Values for a Post-Pandemic Future

Matthew Dennis, Georgy Ishmaev, Steven Umbrello, and Jeroen van den Hoven

Part I: Learning from COVID-19

Chapter 2

COVID-19 and Changing Values

Ibo van de Poel, Tristan de Wildt, and Dyami van Kooten Pássaro

Chapter 3

What Has COVID-19 Taught Us About Democracy? Relational Democracy and Digital Surveillance Technologies

Elena Ziliotti

Chapter 4

Contact Tracing Apps for the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Responsible Innovation Perspective

George Ogoh, Simisola Akintoye, Damian Okaibedi Eke, Tonii Leach, Paschal Ochang, Adebowale Owoseni, Oluyinka Oyeniji, and Bernd Carsten Stahl

Chapter 5

Uncertainty, Vaccination, and the Duties of Liberal States

Pei-hua Huang

Chapter 6

Conspiracism as a Litmus Test for Responsible Innovation

Eugen Octav Popa and Vincent Blok

Chapter 7

Confronting Ableism in a Post-COVID World: Designing for World-Familiarity Through Acts of Defamiliarization 

Janna van Grunsven and Wijnand IJsselsteijn

Chapter 8

Values as hypotheses and messy institutions: What ethicists can learn from the COVID-19 crisis

Udo Pesch 

Part II: Envisioning a Post-Pandemic Future

Chapter 9

Offsetting Present Risks, Preempting Future Harms, and The Ethics of a ‘New Normal’ 

Sven Nyholm and Kritika Maheshwari

Chapter 10

Designing in Times of Uncertainty: what virtue ethics can bring to engineering ethics in the 21st century 

Jan Peter Bergen and Zoë Robaey

Chapter 11

“Understanding Risks and Moral Emotions in the context of COVID-19 Policy making: the case of the Netherlands”

Sabine Roeser

Chapter 12

How to balance individual and collective values after COVID-19? Lessons learned from crowd management at Dutch train stations.

Andrej Dameski, Andreas Spahn, Caspar Pouw, Alessandro Corbetta, Federico Toschi and Gunter Bombaerts

Chapter 13

Rhetorics of Resilience and Extended Crises: Reasoning in the Moral Situation of Our Post-pandemic World

Samantha Copeland and Jose Cañizares Gaztelu

O autorze

Matthew J. Dennis

Matthew J. Dennis is a philosopher of technology, specialising in the ethics of artificial intelligence and persuasive technology. His recent publications focus on how we can live well with emerging technologies (data-driven algorithms, recommender systems, virtual assistants, self-care apps), as well as how our digital well-being is affected by gender, income, and intercultural factors. Recently he has published articles in Journal of Value Inquiry, Philosophy & Technology, Ethics & Information Technology, Science & Engineering Ethics, Journal of Moral Education, and Journal of Social Epistemology. His article, 'Towards a Theory of Digital Well-Being', won the TU/e Postdoctoral Article Prize (2021). He is the co-editor of two topical collections of Ethics and Information Technology (on COVID-19 technologies and on the ethics of algorithmic hiring). Currently, he is a Research Fellow in Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (ESDiT) at TU Eindhoven (2021–2024) with visiting positions at the University of Oxford's Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence and at University of Amsterdam's Institute for Advanced Studies. Prior to this, he was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at TU Delft (2019–21). 

Georgy Ishmaev 

Georgy Ishmaev is a postdoctoral researcher at Distributed Systems section of  Software Development department of TU Delft. His current areas of research include decentralised systems, data ethics, identity management systems, and privacy.  He is also a co-editor for the topical collection of Ethics and Information Technology journal – "Ethics of Information Technology in the COVID-19 Crisis."

Steven Umbrello

Steven Umbrello currently serves as the Managing Director at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (501c3 non-profit, Boston, MA) and a postdoctoral research fellow at TU Delft. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Technoethics, the Managing Editor of the Journal of Responsible Technology, and the book reviews editor for Prometheus - critical studies in innovation. Currently, his main area of research revolves around Value Sensitive Design (VSD), its philosophical foundation as well as its potential application to emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and Industry 4.0 

Jeroen van den Hoven

Jeroen van den Hoven is university professor and full professor of Ethics and Technology at Delft University of Technology and editor in chief of Ethics and Information Technology. He is currently the scientific director of the Delft Design for Values Institute. He was the founding scientific director of 4TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology (2007-2013). In 2009, he won the World Technology Award for Ethics as well as the IFIP prize for ICT and Society for his work in Ethics and ICT. Jeroen van den Hoven was founder, and until 2016 Programme Chair, of the program of the Dutch Research Council on Responsible Innovation. He published Designing in Ethics (Van den Hoven, Miller & Pogge eds., Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Evil Online (Cocking & Van den Hoven, Blackwell, 2018) He is a permanent member of the European Group on Ethics (EGE) to the European Commission. In 2017 he was knighted in the Order of the Lion of The Netherlands.