Care in An Era of New technologies and Artificial Intelligence

Care in An Era of New technologies and Artificial Intelligence
Relationships in a Connected World
Vanessa Nurock

Peeters Publishers, Ethics of Care Series 14
Open access
Paperback  

Summary:
Modern civilization has been undergoing a major technological revolution accelerated by artificial intelligence. This revolution has ethical and political dimensions that make it similar in scope to the Enlightenment, yet potentially contrary in values. Blurring traditional binary oppositions such as ‘natural’ vs. ‘artificial,’ it opens up a horizon of unpredictability that threatens to compromise our capacity to manage risk and our desire for control.
As we face this challenge, the task of philosophical ethics is to articulate an ethics of care and of heightened sensitivity to human relations that is commensurate with the needs of a hyperconnected world. This book seeks to go beyond the fruitless divide between obtuse resistance vs. managerial technosolutionism to address serious theoretical and practical issues, asking what we should reasonably expect from the new technologies and artificial intelligence and how we can design them ethically so that we can uphold the Enlightenment injunction: “Dare to think!
Quelle éthique pour les nouvelles technologies?

Quelle éthique pour les nouvelles technologies? Nanotechnologies, Cybergénétique, Intelligence Artificielle

Vanessa Nurock

Vrin - La vie morale

June 2024

Abstract:

Over the past two decades, new technologies have developed so rapidly that they have become an integral part of every aspect of our lives, bringing about major changes in the way we live and profoundly modifying social relationships. They raise fundamental ethical issues that need to be discussed from both a theoretical and a practical angle, by considering them within a broader system of new technologies. By analyzing in turn and together the ethical issues raised by Nanotechnologies, Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, this book proposes a fresh rethinking of the ethics of these technologies. It also shows that it is possible, and even desirable, to give in to neither blind adoration nor panic fear of these new realities, in order to ask ourselves collectively under what conditions these technologies can be ethical, and contribute to envisioning desirable futures.

Le care au coeur de la pandémie

Le care au coeur de la pandémie

Vanessa Nurock, Marie-Hélène Parizeau (ed.)




Contributors :

Margo Bernelin, Alexandre Gefen, Anne Gonon, Sandra Laugier, Pascale Molinier, Vanessa Nurock, Marie-Hélène Parizeau



 
Abstract:
This book explores the facets of these individual, collective and institutional vulnerabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights how care is both what enabled us to hold together, and what we value. Using care theory as a starting point, the texts gathered here examine various crucial issues raised by the pandemic, in particular the crisis of responsibility and democracy, the invisibility of women's and immigrants' work, risk management and digital solutions, the collection of personal data for public health purposes, care taking in the face of death, and collective resilience.