We, robots

Questioning the Neutrality of Technology, Ethical AI and Technological Determinism
2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-77173-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 137 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 254 g

This book takes a philosophical look at traditional technological tools such as hammers and drills as well as the modern: autonomous cars, ChatGPT, smartphones, apps, steam engines, nuclear power plants, computers, and many other systems that surround us. The three main questions tackled are:

• Is technology neutral? Or is the design often intertwined with a Western or gendered perspective?
• What are the ethical risks of AI? Is it necessarily biased? Is the climate problem linked to smart technologies?
• Is technological determinism correct? In other words, is the world controlled by engineers since the digital revolution, or are their inventions merely a product of society?

Lode Lauwaert and Bartek Chomanski offer an idiosyncratic perspective on technology and AI. The result is a nuanced and critical view of the key themes of our time. This book appeals broadly to students, researchers as well as non-academic audiences for an introduction to the philosophy of technology and AI.

Mark Coeckelbergh, University of Vienna

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chomanski, Bartek

Lauwaert, Lode

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie der Technik
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Philosophie der Technik
• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Nachrichten- und Kommunikationstechnik Regelungstechnik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 The Neutrality of Technology.- 2 Ethics of AI.- 3 Technological Determinism.

Über Autor(innen)

Lode Lauwaert is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Technology at KU Leuven (Belgium), where he holds the Ethics and AI Chair.

Bartek Chomanski is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland).