Abstract
Recent advances in the capability of digital information technologies—particularly due to advances in artificial intelligence (AI)—have invigorated the debate on the ethical issues surrounding their use. However, this debate has often been dominated by ‘Western’ ethical perspectives, values and interests, to the exclusion of broader ethical and socio-cultural perspectives. This imbalance carries the risk that digital technologies produce ethical harms and lack social acceptance, when the ethical norms and values designed into these technologies collide with those of the communities in which they are delivered and deployed. This special issue takes a step towards broadening the approach of digital ethics, by bringing together a range of cultural, social and structural perspectives on the ethical issues relating to digital information technology. Importantly, it refreshes and reignites the field of Intercultural Digital Ethics for the age of AI and ubiquitous computing.
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Recent advances in the capability of digital information technologies— due to advances in artificial intelligence (AI)—have invigorated the debate on the ethical issues surrounding their use (Tsamados et al 2020)
Introduction to the Special Issue onIntercultural Digital Ethics Nikita Aggarwal1Received: September 2020 / Accepted: September 2020 / Published online: 19 Septwember 2020 # The Author(s) 2020 AbstractRecent advances in the capability of digital information technologies— due to advances in artificial intelligence (AI)—have invigorated the debate on the ethical issues surrounding their use
This debate has often been dominated by ‘Western’ ethical perspectives, values and interests, to the exclusion of broader ethical and socio-cultural perspectives. This imbalance carries the risk that digital technologies produce ethical harms and lack social acceptance, when the ethical norms and values designed into these technologies collide with those of the communities in which they are delivered and deployed
Summary
Recent advances in the capability of digital information technologies— due to advances in artificial intelligence (AI)—have invigorated the debate on the ethical issues surrounding their use (Tsamados et al 2020). Intercultural Digital Ethics (IDE) is a sub-field of information ethics and digital ethics research that seeks to redress this imbalance, by examining the ethical issues due to digital technologies from different cultural and social perspectives.
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