The Ethics of Modern and Emerging Technology
A special issue of Philosophies (ISSN 2409-9287).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 October 2024 | Viewed by 13579
Special Issue Editors
Interests: artificial intelligence and law; ethics of disruptive technologies; regulation of technology
Interests: ethics of digital transformation; ethics of artificial intelligence; business ethics and ethics of finance; ethics of human rights; political ethics; the relation between ethics and law
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to invite you to submit your article to a Special Issue on The Ethics of Modern and Emerging Technology.
Our goal is to address the ethical challenges and risks related to contemporary new technologies, such as:
- Artificial Intelligence: ChatGPT, DALL-E 2, etc.;
- Automation and robotics;
- Digital transformation;
- Internet of Things, cloud computing, and edge computing;
- Distributed ledger technologies: Blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and stakes;
- New realities: virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, and the Metaverse;
- Neuroscience and brain-machine interfaces.
In what follows, we elaborate a non-exhaustive list of topics and research questions that we would like to receive original and unpublished contributions on:
- Principles, norms, new challenges, and new risks regarding the ethics of modern technologies;
- New ways of implementing and realizing the ethics of modern technologies;
- New frameworks and new stakeholders in the ethics of modern technologies
- New interdisciplinary connections within the ethics of modern technologies;
- New ethical modes of governance for modern technologies;
- New solutions and suggestions for the development of the ethics of modern technologies;
- The future of the ethics of modern technologies.
As it is obvious from the non-exhaustive list of approaches above, we are particularly interested in addressing the aforementioned topics through the lens of their novelty; that is to say, our interest lies in discovering what is new about ethics if we look at the ethics through the lens of these modern technologies: what new ethical problems have been put on the table, which problems are already solved or—if not solved—outdated and irrelevant, and what these dynamics of ethical issues teach, show, and reveal to us about us and our understanding of technological development. In addition to that, we are also interested in new ethical challenges, critical approaches to the ethics of technology, new solutions to ethical problems, new ways of implementing and realizing ethics in the field of modern technologies, specific case analysis, and practical suggestions on how to make modern technologies more ethically sound and acceptable.
Our goal is to bring new insights to the ethical debate of how contemporary technological evolution should be articulated, and we will accept papers from any scientific discipline if their contents fit the goals of this Special Issue.
The length of original papers ranges from 6,000 to 12,000 words. The articles will be published online (i.e., open access) as well as in print format.
Information on the article processing charge and any waivers/discounts applicable are below.
We look forward to reading your work.
Dr. Migle Laukyte
Prof. Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Philosophies is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- ethics
- AI robotics
- digital transformation
- neuroscience
- distributed ledger
- blockchain virtual reality
- metaverse
