DAHL Topics for 2024-2025
A reflection on the plans for DAHL this year, from Dr Robert O’Toole. My approach this year will be to explore a range of exciting […]
Month: September 2024
When should we formally regulate a technology?
This is inspired by the first chapter of Lucy Suchman’s book Human-Machine Reconfigurations (2nd edition 2012). Suchman is an anthropologist who has worked in, and […]
The ethical challenges of self-driving cars
I’m listening to the philosophical podcast series This is Technology Ethics. Much of this concerns, but is not limited to, the advance of AI and its implications.
Episode 2 (20th September 2023) uses the case of self-driving cars (SDCs) to explore methods in ethics. As the authors say, this is a current hot-spot for technology ethics research. It also works well to illustrate the difference between narrow approaches to ethics, and a broader systems-focussed approach.
