Informed Consent in Asymmetrical Relationships: an Investigation into...
AbstractIn recent years, informed consent has been suggested as a way to deal with risks posed by engineered nanomaterials. We argue that while we can learn from experiences with informed consent in...
View ArticleSafe-by-Design: from Safety to Responsibility
AbstractSafe-by-design (SbD) aims at addressing safety issues already during the R&D and design phases of new technologies. SbD has increasingly become popular in the last few years for addressing...
View ArticleThe Food Warden: An Exploration of Issues in Distributing Responsibilities...
AbstractThe Safe-by-Design approach in synthetic biology holds the promise of designing the building blocks of life in an organism guided by the value of safety. This paves a new way for using...
View ArticleDesign for value change
AbstractIn the value sensitive design (VSD) literature, there has been little attention for how values may change during the adoption and use of a sociotechnical system, and what that implies for...
View ArticleVarieties of responsibility: two problems of responsible innovation
AbstractThe notion of responsible innovation suggests that innovators carry additional responsibilities (to society, stakeholders, users) beyond those commonly suggested. In this paper, we will discuss...
View ArticleHow to Weigh Values in Value Sensitive Design: A Best Worst Method Approach...
AbstractProactively including the ethical and societal issues of new technologies could have a positive effect on their acceptance. These issues could be captured in terms of values. In the literature,...
View ArticleAlgorithms and values in justice and security
AbstractThis article presents a conceptual investigation into the value impacts and relations of algorithms in the domain of justice and security. As a conceptual investigation, it represents one step...
View ArticleCore Values and Value Conflicts in Cybersecurity: Beyond Privacy Versus Security
AbstractThis chapter analyses some of the main values, and values conflicts, in relation to cybersecurity by distinguishing four important value clusters that should be considered when deciding on...
View ArticleDigital platforms and responsible innovation: expanding value sensitive...
AbstractIn this paper, we argue that the characteristics of digital platforms challenge the fundamental assumptions of value sensitive design (VSD). Traditionally, VSD methods assume that we can...
View ArticleEmbedding Values in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems
AbstractOrganizations such as the EU High-Level Expert Group on AI and the IEEE have recently formulated ethical principles and (moral) values that should be adhered to in the design and deployment of...
View ArticleCOVID-19, uncertainty, and moral experiments
AbstractPandemics like COVID-19 confront us with decisions about life and death that come with great uncertainty, factual as well as moral. How should policy makers deal with such uncertainty? We...
View ArticleMapping value sensitive design onto AI for social good principles
AbstractValue sensitive design (VSD) is an established method for integrating values into technical design. It has been applied to different technologies and, more recently, to artificial intelligence...
View ArticleResponsible innovation, anticipation and responsiveness: case studies of...
AbstractThe collection and use of personal data on citizens in the design and deployment of algorithms in the domain of justice and security is a sensitive topic. Values like fairness, autonomy,...
View ArticleWerthaltigkeit der Technik
ZusammenfassungTechnologie ist eng mit Werten verbunden. Gelegentlich gefährden Technologien bestimmte Werte. Aber Technologien können auch Werte unterstützen, wie beispielsweise das menschliche...
View ArticleUnderstanding Technology-Induced Value Change: a Pragmatist Proposal
Abstract We propose a pragmatist account of value change that helps to understand how and why values sometimes change due to technological developments. Inspired by John Dewey’s writings on value, we...
View ArticleMoral transparency of and concerning algorithmic tools
AbstractAlgorithms and AI tools are becoming increasingly influential artefacts in commercial and governance contexts. Algorithms and AI tools are not value neutral; to some extent they must be...
View ArticleCOVID-19 and Changing Values
AbstractWe study value change due to the corona pandemic. With the help of topic modelling, we analysed COVID-related news articles for changes in the frequency of how often these news articles address...
View ArticleSocially Disruptive Technologies, Contextual Integrity, and Conservatism...
Abstract This commentary is a response to Contextual Integrity as a General Conceptual Tool for Evaluating Technological Change by Elizabeth O’Neill (Philosophy & Technology (2022)). It argues that...
View ArticleAI, Control and Unintended Consequences: The Need for Meta-Values
AbstractDue to their self-learning and evolutionary character, AI (Artificial Intelligence) systems are more prone to unintended consequences and more difficult to control than traditional...
View ArticleNot a Good Fix: Constitutivism on Value Change and Disagreement
AbstractWe examine whether Thomsonian constitutivism, a metaethical view that analyses value in terms of ‘goodness-fixing kinds,’ i.e. kinds that themselves set the standards for being a good instance...
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