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Dec 09, 2019
4:52 PM
IIIT Bangalore
Towards an Ethical Digital Society: From Theory to Practice
A 3-day Winter School organized by the Centre for IT and Public Policy (CITAPP) at IIIT Bangalore
9th -11th December 2019
Concept: Since mid-twentieth century, technological innovation and change have been subjected to much public scrutiny, mostly in terms of their impact on and desirability for human societies. Starting from nuclear weapons to automobiles and from genetic engineering to artificial intelligence, serious ethical concerns such as environmental degradation, privacy violation and erosion of human agency have been raised. However, the relationship between technology and ethics is not always straightforward and is often intertwined with many other sociotechnical issues (Mitcham and Waelbers 2012). In more recent times, with ubiquitous presence of digital technologies in our lives accompanied by rapid technological changes, the relationship has become far more ambiguous, but yet more relevant, than ever before.
In simple terms, ethics is the study of what is right and wrong, good and bad. Ethics as a branch of philosophy that asks three sets of questions: why should we behave ethically (meta-ethics); how do we determine whether a particular action or course of action is ethical (normative ethics); and three, what are the implications of ethical positions in domains such as business, technology, medicine, politics, etc. (applied ethics). In addition to these concerns, anthropological notions of ethics focuses on moral subjects and their subjectivities (Fassin 2014). This means that our understanding of what is ethical differs across cultures and geographies as well as individual social positions (Applin 2014). For example, how to teach autonomous vehicles to follow local laws and norms; how to measure the impact of algorithms on marginal sections of the society; who should be held accountable when technologies fail?