Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies

@article{nokey,

title = {Technosocial disruption, enactivism, & social media: On the overlooked risks of teenage cancel culture},

author = {Janna van Grunsven and Lavinia Marin},

url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160791X24001507?via%3Dihub

https://www.esdit.nl/technosocial-disruption-enactivism-amp-social-media-on_2024_technology/},

doi = {10.1016/j.techsoc.2024.102602},

issn = {0160-791X},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-09-01},

journal = {Technology in Society},

volume = {78},

pages = {102602},

abstract = {In a world undergoing rapid, large-scale technological change, the phenomenon of technosocial disruption is receiving increasing scholarly and societal attention. While the phenomenon is most actively delineated in philosophy of technology, it is also receiving growing attention within a different area of philosophy, namely the so-called “4E Cognition” approach to philosophy of mind. Despite this shared interest in technosocial disruption, there is relatively little exchange between the theorizing going on in these two different areas of philosophy. One of our paper's two main aims is programmatic: to motivate the fruitfulness of such an exchange. We do this by turning to a specific case of technosocial disruption, namely Teenage Cancel Culture [TCC]. TCC cannot be disentangled from the introduction of social media platforms [SMPs] into modern day social life. Hence, we will speak of SMP-Afforded TCC. SPM-afforded TCC is a phenomenon fretted over by societal actors but strikingly ignored in academic research. In our effort to narrow this knowledge gap, we analyze SMP-afforded TCC from a perspective of technosocial disruption enriched by insights from 4E-Cognition. This brings out a specific worry about the role of SMPs in the social lives of teenagers. We argue that SMP-afforded TCC disrupts the social relational domains within which teenagers develop, maintain, and express their precarious social identities, by creating social affordances that are hostile to healthy risky interpersonal identity-exploration. As such, SMP-afforded TCC not only cancels particular individuals for particular acts; it may also pre-emptively cancel a certain way of being a social self, namely a healthy social risk-taker. We conclude the paper by proposing several potential routes for mitigating the perniciously disruptive effects of SMP-afforded TCC and identifying future areas for research.},

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@article{nokey,

title = {Viewpoint: Hybrid Intelligence Supports Application Development for Diabetes Lifestyle Management},

author = {Bernd J. W. Dudzik and Jasper S. van der Waa and Pei-Yu Chen and Roel Dobbe and Inago M.D.R. de Troya and Roos M. Bakker and Maaike H. T. de Boer and Emre Erdogan and Pinar Yolum and Shihan Wang and Selene Baez Santamaria and Lea Krause and Bart Kamphorst},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1613/jair.1.15916

https://www.esdit.nl/15916wpgs/},

doi = {10.1613/jair.1.15916},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-07-10},

journal = {JAIR – Journal for Artificial Intelligence Research},

volume = {80},

abstract = {Type II diabetes is a complex health condition requiring patients to closely and continuously collaborate with healthcare professionals and other caretakers on lifestyle changes. While intelligent products have tremendous potential to support such Diabetes Lifestyle Management (DLM), existing products are typically conceived from a technology-centered perspective that insufficiently acknowledges the degree to which collaboration and inclusion of stakeholders is required. In this article, we argue that the emergent design philosophy of Hybrid Intelligence (HI) forms a suitable alternative lens for research and development. In particular, we (1) highlight a series of pragmatic challenges for effective AI-based DLM support based on results from an expert focus group, and (2) argue for HI’s potential to address these by outlining relevant research trajectories.},

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