#867 Jeroen Hopster, Julia Hermann & Ibo van de Poel: Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies
RECORDED ON NOVEMBER 10th 2023.
Dr. Jeroen Hopster is an Assistant Professor of ethics at Utrecht University. His research centers on climate ethics and on investigating the nature of socially disruptive technologies.
Dr. Julia Hermann is an Assistant Professor of philosophy and ethics at the University of Twente where she works on ectogestative technology, care robots, technomoral change and progress, and new methodologies in the ethics of technology.
Dr. Ibo van de Poel is a Professor in ethics of technology at Delft University of Technology. His research focuses on values, technology and design and how values, and related concepts that address ethical issues in technology (can) change over time.
They are editors of Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies: An Introduction.
In this episode, we focus on Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies. We start by discussing the ethics of technology, what socially disruptive technologies are, and the intercultural outlook of the book. We then go through social media, social robots, climate engineering, and ectogestative technology. We also discuss who should be held responsible for social disruption, and whether technology is neutral.
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Intro
How the book came about
The ethics of technology
What are socially disruptive technologies?
An intercultural outlook on technology
Social media and democracy
Social robots, and what is unique about humans
Climate engineering
Ectogestative technology, parenting, and gender roles
Who should be held responsible for social disruption?
Is technology neutral?
Final messages
Follow Drs. Hopster, Hermann, and van de Poel’s work!
Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies: https://bit.ly/48DshUP
Follow Dr. Hopster’s work:
Website: http://bit.ly/3bEajE3
PhilPeople profile: https://bit.ly/2wleHbf
And Dr. Hermann’s work:
Faculty page: https://bit.ly/45ZCM2F
Academia.edu page: https://bit.ly/3Zvt1qU
And Dr. van de Poel’s work:
Faculty page: https://bit.ly/3EPmRs4
ResearchGate profile: https://bit.ly/3PrUVzo