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What is the Human Project for our Digital Future? Luciano Floridi Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information, University of Oxford Faculty Fellow and Chair of the Data Research Group, Alan Turing Institute @Floridi | luciano.fl[email protected]
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What is the Human Project for our Digital Future?
Luciano Floridi Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information, University of Oxford Faculty Fellow and Chair of the Data Research Group, Alan Turing Institute
@Floridi | [email protected]
ONLIFE WORLD
Enveloping the world
INFOSPHERE
HYPERHISTORY
analogue/digital = the new brackish space Information society = the mangrove society
Five ethical challenges for the infosphere
Infosphere as a social experiment Good information behaviour
1 2 3 4 5
IoT and smart environments as social labs open/big data, smart algorithms/AI/machine learning, smart sensors, cloud computing…
1 2 3 4 5 Rural, Urban, Hyper-urban Infosphere Fairness and opportunities
the invisible, the opaque, and the salient
old/new obsolete/futuristic messy
Human, Biological, Artificial, Agency Competition and Collaboration
1 2 3 4 5
shared environment: past
shared environment: present
shared environment: future
1 2 3 4 5 Top-down Supply, bottom-up Demand E-governance and Democracy
alignment of e-supply and e-demand tolerant paternalism
1 2 3 4 5 Natural, Artificial, Synthetic Realities E-nvironmental Ethics
SMART 2020: Enabling the Low Carbon Economy in the Information Age, The Climate Group, 2008
Feasible Sustainable
Acceptable Preferable
20th c.: crisis of founds. of mathematics 21st c.: crisis of founds. of human rights
Security
Privacy
Self-determination
Freedom of Expression and
Information
Apple-FBI
RTBF
FB-Trump
Snowden
EXCEPTIONALISM
Autonomy as - self-determination - self-regulation - learning (rule changing) - adaptability - smart tasking … human exeptionalism?
TuringTuring
The Fourth Revolution
ANTHROPO-ECCENTRISM
Pico della Mirandola Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486).
Neither angels nor brutes (or robots).
Polytropos.
Travellers’ ethics: in the hands of our hosts. Right to protection and hospitality.
Dignity: masters of our own journeys, and keep our identities and our choices open.
Any technology/policy that manipulates such openness risks dehumanising us (Circe’s guests).
Human dignity as polytropy: anthropo-eccentric foundation for the right to privacy and individual control over our own constitutive information.
Travellers’ duties as guests: care and respect for the other. Caring stewardship counterpart of right to privacy.
We are special because we are Nature’s Beautiful Glitch
We are Nature’s Non-fatal Exception
We are Informational Organisms
Our Lives and Identities are informationally fragile
The Human Project must be friendly to the beautiful glitch
Analogue capitalism is based on consumerism. Digital capitalism should be based on “fosterism”.
THANK YOU
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