Ethics of technology

How can we responsibly use new technology, reaping the benefits and minimising negative consequences? This is a broad and difficult question, which requires us to translate the abstract values we have for technologies such as explainability and fairness into concrete requirements that have to be met. When is an algorithm fair? What do we need to know to be able to use technology well? It’s our role as philosophers to think together with stakeholders in society about answers to those questions.

Dr. S.N.R. (Stefan) Buijsman