Lecturer: Judith Simon
Fields: Philosophy/Ethics of AI, Philosophy & Ethics of Technology
Content
In this course, I will provide a short introduction into philosophy and ethics of technology, including the role of values in design. I will focus in particular on epistemological, ethical and political questions arising ariding in the context of big data analytics and artificial intelligence.
Literature
- Anderson, C. (2008). The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete. In: Wired, [online] https://www.wired.com/2008/06/pb-theory/
- Angwin, J., Larson, J., Mattu, S. and Kirchner, L. (2016, Mai 23). Machine Bias: There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks. ProPublica.
- Barocas, S. and Selbst, A. D. (2016). Big Data’s Disparate Impact. 104 California Law Review 671(2016). https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2477899
- Boyd, D. and Crawford, K. (2012). Critical Questions for Big Data: Provocations for a Cultural, Technological, and Scholarly Phenomenon. Information, Communication, & Society 15(5), 662-679.
- Busch, L. (2016). Looking in the Wrong (La)place? The Promise and Perils of Becoming Big Data. Science, Technology & Human Values 42(4), 657 – 678. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243916677835
- Introna, L. (2005). “Phenomenological Approaches to Ethics and Information Technology.” Retrieved 24.03.2011, from http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-it-phenomenology/.
- Keyes, O., et al. (2019). A Mulching Proposal: Analysing and Improving and Algorithmic System for Turning the Elderly into High-Nutrient Slurry. CHI 2019, Glasgow, ACM.
- Kitchin, R. (2014). Big Data, New Epistemologies and Paradigm Shifts. Big Data & Society, 1(1).
- Latour, B. (1992). Where Are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts. Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change. W. E. Bijker and J. Law. Cambridge, MIT Press: 225-258.
- Leonelli, S. (2014). What difference does quantity make? On the epistemology of Big Data in biology. Big Data & Society, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951714534395
- Moor, J. H. (1985). “What is computer ethics?” Metaphilosophy 16(4): 266-279
- Nissenbaum, H. (2005). Values in Technical Design. In Mitcham, C. (Hrsg.), Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics, lxvi- lxx. New York: Macmillan.
- Winner, L. (1980). “Do Artifacts Have Politics?” Daedalus 109(1): 121-136.
Lecturer
Judith Simon is Full Professor for Ethics in Information Technologies at the Universität Hamburg. She is interested in ethical, epistemological and political questions arising in the context of digital technologies, in particular in regards to big data and artificial intelligence. Judith Simon is a member of the German Ethics Council as well as various other committees of scientific policy advice and has also been a member of the Data Ethics Commission of the German Federal Government (2018-2019). Her Routledge Handbook of Trust and Philosophy has been published in June 2020.
Affiliation: Universität Hamburg
Homepage: https://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/en/inst/ab/eit/team/simon.html