Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
EASST-4S 2024 Amsterdam: Making and Doing Transformations, Amsterdam, Hollanda, 16 - 19 Temmuz 2024, ss.1-2
The theoretical acknowledgment of the ethical impact of technology within human existence has become the likely outcome of many ethics of technology courses. However, the transformative objectives of these courses often remain unrealized. What is currently imperative is to enable students to internalize ethical awareness, particularly in their daily and professional interactions with technology. To this end, an ethics of technology course ought to offer not only philosophical and STS perspectives on technology and merely point out the ethical challenges posed by emerging technologies. But it also ought to facilitate heightened engagement with technology from the perspective of applied ethics.
The methodology we advocate for implementation within the ethics of technology course endeavors to foster ethical AI through a semester-long project. Within this framework, students with diverse disciplinary backgrounds will be encouraged to select an AI tool pertinent to their academic or professional domain, engage in critical reflection and research regarding its scope and limitations, ascertain the needs this tool is capable of addressing, identify its functionalities and assess the tool’s efficacy, particularly taking into account the potential ethical implications it can generate. Ultimately, students will be asked to formulate and present recommendations for the refinement of the AI tool that is both ethically conscientious and operationally proficient. They will also be supervised to relate their findings with STS and ethical theories in such a way that the transformative potentiality of applied ethics can be realized to ultimately inform and consolidate these theories.