Philosophy and Technology最新文献

What Will Happen to Humanity in a Million Years? Gilbert Hottois and the Temporality of Technoscience. 一百万年后人类会发生什么？吉尔伯特·霍托伊斯和技术科学的时间性。

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-025-00887-4

Massimiliano Simons

{"title":"What Will Happen to Humanity in a Million Years? Gilbert Hottois and the Temporality of Technoscience.","authors":"Massimiliano Simons","doi":"10.1007/s13347-025-00887-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-025-00887-4","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides an overview of the philosophy of Gilbert Hottois, who is usually credited with popularizing the concept of technoscience. Hottois starts from a metaphilosophy of language that diagnoses twentieth-century philosophy as fixated on language at the expense of technology. As an alternative, he developed a philosophy of technoscience that reinterprets science as primarily an intervening and technical activity rather than a contemplative and theoretical one. As I will argue, Hottois articulates the nature of this technicity through a philosophy of time, reflecting on the specific temporality of technoscience as distinct from human history. This temporality of technoscience provoked the need for ethical reflection, since technoscience is constantly changing and transforming the world. This led to Hottois's engagement with bioethics, in which he sought to develop a framework capable of \"guiding\" technoscience. Aiming to avoid both total symbolic closure and total technical openness, this guidance is concerned with the preservation of diversity, especially the human capacity for ethics, ethicity. This idea of guidance was later taken up by Dutch philosophers such as Hans Achterhuis and Peter-Paul Verbeek, inspiring their empirical turn in the philosophy of technology. What remains missing in this framework, however, is Hottois's critical analysis of the different temporalities at work in technology and culture.","PeriodicalId":39065,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy and Technology","volume":"38 2","pages":"58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12041151/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144054891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Can AI Rely on the Systematicity of Truth? The Challenge of Modelling Normative Domains. 人工智能能否依赖系统性的真理？规范领域建模的挑战。

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-025-00864-x

Matthieu Queloz

{"title":"Can AI Rely on the Systematicity of Truth? The Challenge of Modelling Normative Domains.","authors":"Matthieu Queloz","doi":"10.1007/s13347-025-00864-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-025-00864-x","url":null,"abstract":"A key assumption fuelling optimism about the progress of Large Language Models (LLMs) in accurately and comprehensively modelling the world is that the truth is systematic: true statements about the world form a whole that is not just consistent, in that it contains no contradictions, but coherent, in that the truths are inferentially interlinked. This holds out the prospect that LLMs might in principle rely on that systematicity to fill in gaps and correct inaccuracies in the training data: consistency and coherence promise to facilitate progress towards comprehensiveness in an LLM's representation of the world. However, philosophers have identified compelling reasons to doubt that the truth is systematic across all domains of thought, arguing that in normative domains, in particular, the truth is largely asystematic. I argue that insofar as the truth in normative domains is asystematic, this renders it correspondingly harder for LLMs to make progress, because they cannot then leverage the systematicity of truth. And the less LLMs can rely on the systematicity of truth, the less we can rely on them to do our practical deliberation for us, because the very asystematicity of normative domains requires human agency to play a greater role in practical thought.","PeriodicalId":39065,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy and Technology","volume":"38 1","pages":"34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11906541/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143650431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

What is the Point of Social Media? Corporate Purpose and Digital Democratization. 社交媒体的意义是什么？企业目标与数字民主化。

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-025-00855-y

Ugur Aytac

{"title":"What is the Point of Social Media? Corporate Purpose and Digital Democratization.","authors":"Ugur Aytac","doi":"10.1007/s13347-025-00855-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13347-025-00855-y","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a new normative framework to think about Big Tech reform. Focusing on the case of digital communication, I argue that rethinking the corporate purpose of social media companies is a distinctive entry point to the debate on how to render the powers of tech corporations democratically legitimate. I contend that we need to strive for a reform that redefines the corporate purpose of social media companies. In this view, their purpose should be to create and maintain a free, egalitarian, and democratic public sphere rather than profit seeking. This political reform democratically contains corporate power in two ways: first, the legally enforceable fiduciary duties of corporate boards are reconceptualized in relation to democratic purposes rather than shareholder interests. Second, corporate governance structures should be redesigned to ensure that the abstract purpose is realized through representatives whose incentives align with the existence of a democratic public sphere. My argument complements radical proposals such as platform socialism by drawing a connection between democratizing social media governance and identifying the proper purpose of social media companies.","PeriodicalId":39065,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy and Technology","volume":"38 1","pages":"26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11842518/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143484260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Digital Emotion Detection, Privacy, and the Law. 数字情感检测，隐私和法律。

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-025-00895-4

Leonhard Menges, Eva Weber-Guskar

引用次数: 0

The Designer of A Robot Determines Its Position Within The Moral Circle. 机器人的设计者决定了机器人在道德圈中的位置。

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-025-00898-1

Kamil Mamak

引用次数: 0

Where Technology Leads, the Problems Follow. Technosolutionism and the Dutch Contact Tracing App. 技术引领，问题随行。技术解决主义与荷兰联系人追踪应用程序。

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-024-00807-y

Lotje E Siffels, Tamar Sharon

{"title":"Where Technology Leads, the Problems Follow. Technosolutionism and the Dutch Contact Tracing App.","authors":"Lotje E Siffels, Tamar Sharon","doi":"10.1007/s13347-024-00807-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13347-024-00807-y","url":null,"abstract":"In April 2020, in the midst of its first pandemic lockdown, the Dutch government announced plans to develop a contact tracing app to help contain the spread of the coronavirus - the Coronamelder. Originally intended to address the problem of the overburdening of manual contract tracers, by the time the app was released six months later, the problem it sought to solve had drastically changed, without the solution undergoing any modification, making it a prime example of technosolutionism. While numerous critics have mobilised the concept of technosolutionism, the questions of how technosolutionism works in practice and which specific harms it can provoke have been understudied. In this paper we advance a thick conception of technosolutionism which, drawing on Evgeny Morozov, distinguishes it from the notion of technological fix, and, drawing on constructivism, emphasizes its constructivist dimension. Using this concept, we closely follow the problem that the Coronamelder aimed to solve and how it shifted over time to fit the Coronamelder solution, rather than the other way around. We argue that, although problems are always constructed, technosolutionist problems are badly constructed, insofar as the careful and cautious deliberation which should accompany problem construction in public policy is absent in the case of technosolutionism. This can lead to three harms: a subversion of democratic decision-making; the presence of powerful new actors in the public policy context - here Big Tech; and the creation of \"orphan problems\", whereby the initial problems that triggered the need to develop a (techno)solution are left behind. We question whether the most popular form of technology ethics today, which focuses predominantly on the design of technology, is well-equipped to address these technosolutionist harms, insofar as such a focus may preclude critical thinking about whether or not technology should be the solution in the first place.","PeriodicalId":39065,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy and Technology","volume":"37 4","pages":"125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11519188/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142548147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Track Thyself? The Value and Ethics of Self-knowledge Through Technology. 追踪你自己？通过技术认识自我的价值与伦理。

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-27 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-024-00704-4

Muriel Leuenberger

{"title":"Track Thyself? The Value and Ethics of Self-knowledge Through Technology.","authors":"Muriel Leuenberger","doi":"10.1007/s13347-024-00704-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13347-024-00704-4","url":null,"abstract":"Novel technological devices, applications, and algorithms can provide us with a vast amount of personal information about ourselves. Given that we have ethical and practical reasons to pursue self-knowledge, should we use technology to increase our self-knowledge? And which ethical issues arise from the pursuit of technologically sourced self-knowledge? In this paper, I explore these questions in relation to bioinformation technologies (health and activity trackers, DTC genetic testing, and DTC neurotechnologies) and algorithmic profiling used for recommender systems, targeted advertising, and technologically supported decision-making. First, I distinguish between impersonal, critical, and relational self-knowledge. Relational self-knowledge is a so far neglected dimension of self-knowledge which is introduced in this paper. Next, I investigate the contribution of these technologies to the three types of self-knowledge and uncover the connected ethical concerns. Technology can provide a lot of impersonal self-knowledge, but we should focus on the quality of the information which tends to be particularly insufficient for marginalized groups. In terms of critical self-knowledge, the nature of technologically sourced personal information typically impedes critical engagement. The value of relational self-knowledge speaks in favour of transparency of information technology, notably for algorithms that are involved in decision-making about individuals. Moreover, bioinformation technologies and digital profiling shape the concepts and norms that define us. We should ensure they not only serve commercial interests but our identity and self-knowledge interests.","PeriodicalId":39065,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy and Technology","volume":"37 1","pages":"13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10821817/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139576841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Moderating Synthetic Content: the Challenge of Generative AI. 调节合成内容：生成式人工智能的挑战。

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-13 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-024-00818-9

Sarah A Fisher, Jeffrey W Howard, Beatriz Kira

{"title":"Moderating Synthetic Content: the Challenge of Generative AI.","authors":"Sarah A Fisher, Jeffrey W Howard, Beatriz Kira","doi":"10.1007/s13347-024-00818-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-024-00818-9","url":null,"abstract":"Artificially generated content threatens to seriously disrupt the public sphere. Generative AI massively facilitates the production of convincing portrayals of fabricated events. We have already begun to witness the spread of synthetic misinformation, political propaganda, and non-consensual intimate deepfakes. Malicious uses of the new technologies can only be expected to proliferate over time. In the face of this threat, social media platforms must surely act. But how? While it is tempting to think they need new sui generis policies targeting synthetic content, we argue that the challenge posed by generative AI should be met through the enforcement of general platform rules. We demonstrate that the threat posed to individuals and society by AI-generated content is no different in kind from that of ordinary harmful content-a threat which is already well recognised. Generative AI massively increases the problem but, ultimately, it requires the same approach. Therefore, platforms do best to double down on improving and enforcing their existing rules, regardless of whether the content they are dealing with was produced by humans or machines.","PeriodicalId":39065,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy and Technology","volume":"37 4","pages":"133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11561028/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142649217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

The Incalculability of the Generated Text. 生成文本的不可计算性。

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-17 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-024-00708-0

Alžbeta Kuchtová

引用次数: 0

Authorship and ChatGPT: a Conservative View. 作者身份与 ChatGPT：一种保守的观点。

Philosophy and Technology Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-26 DOI: 10.1007/s13347-024-00715-1

René van Woudenberg, Chris Ranalli, Daniel Bracker

引用次数: 0