Freedom in the Society of Control: Ethical challenges

IF 0.7 Q4 ETHICS

Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI:10.2478/ebce-2020-0019

Yevhen Laniuk

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Abstract

Abstract The Society of Control is a philosophical concept developed by Gilles Deleuze in the early 1990s to highlight the transition from Michel Foucault’s Disciplinary Society to a new social constitution of power assisted by digital technologies. The Society of Control is organized around switches, which convert data, and, in this way, exercise power. These switches take data inputs (digitized information about individuals) and transform them into outputs (decisions) based on their pre-programmed instructions. I call these switches “automated decision-making algorithms” (ADMAs) and look at ethical issues that arise from their impact on human freedom. I distinguish between negative and positive aspects of freedom and examine the impact of the ADMAs on both. My main argument is that freedom becomes endangered in this new ecosystem of computerized control, which makes individuals powerless in new and unprecedented ways. Finally, I suggest a few ways to recover freedom, while preserving the economic benefits of the ADMAs.

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控制社会中的自由:伦理挑战

控制社会是吉尔·德勒兹在20世纪90年代初提出的一个哲学概念，旨在强调从米歇尔·福柯的规训社会向数字技术辅助下的新的权力社会结构的过渡。控制社会是围绕开关组织起来的，开关转换数据，并以这种方式行使权力。这些开关接受数据输入(关于个人的数字化信息)，并根据预先编程的指令将其转换为输出(决策)。我把这些开关称为“自动决策算法”(ADMAs)，并研究它们对人类自由的影响所产生的伦理问题。我区分了自由的消极和积极方面，并研究了ADMAs对两者的影响。我的主要论点是，自由在这个计算机控制的新生态系统中受到威胁，它以前所未有的新方式使个人无能为力。最后，我提出了一些恢复自由的方法，同时保留adma的经济利益。

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Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe) Arts and Humanities-Philosophy

CiteScore

1.00

自引率

28.60%

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审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： Ethics & Bioethics (in Central Europe) is one of the leading Central European international journals in ethics and bioethics focusing on philosophical ethics, bioethics and applied ethics also including the history of ethics, ethical and moral education as well as professional ethics. The journal publishes theoretical articles as well as empirical findings concerning all aspects of ethics and morality. Authors can submit research articles, review articles, book reviews, conference reports and information on recently published books. Ethics & Bioethics (in Central Europe) is published in print as well as electronic format, two issues per year (June and December). Only articles in English are accepted for publishing.