From speculation to reality: Enhancing anticipatory ethics for emerging technologies (ATE) in practice

Umbrello, S.; Bernstein, Michael J.; Vermaas, P.E.; Resseguier, Anaïs; Gonzalez, Gustavo; Porcari, Andrea; Grinbaum, Alexei; Adomaitis, Laurynas

doi:10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102325

From speculation to reality

Title

From speculation to reality: Enhancing anticipatory ethics for emerging technologies (ATE) in practice

Author

Umbrello, S. (TU Delft Ethics & Philosophy of Technology; Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
Bernstein, Michael J. (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology)
Vermaas, P.E. (TU Delft Ethics & Philosophy of Technology)
Resseguier, Anaïs (Trilateral Research)
Gonzalez, Gustavo (Italian Association for Industrial Research (Airi))
Porcari, Andrea (Italian Association for Industrial Research (Airi))
Grinbaum, Alexei (CEA-Saclay/IRFU/Larsim, Saclay)
Adomaitis, Laurynas (CEA-Saclay/IRFU/Larsim, Saclay)

Date

2023

Abstract

Various approaches have emerged over the last several decades to meet the challenges and complexities of anticipating and responding to the potential impacts of emerging technologies. Although many of the existing approaches share similarities, they each have shortfalls. This paper takes as the object of its study Anticipatory Ethics for Emerging Technologies (ATE) to technology assessment, given that it was formatted to address many of the privations characterising parallel approaches. The ATE approach, also in practice, presents certain areas for retooling, such as how it characterises levels and objects of analysis. This paper results from the work done with the TechEthos Horizon 2020 project in evaluating the ethical, legal, and social impacts of climate engineering, digital extended reality, and neurotechnologies. To meet the challenges these technology families present, this paper aims to enhance the ATE framework to encompass the variety of human processes and material forms, functions, and applications that comprise the socio-technical systems in which these technologies are embedded.

Subject

Anticipatory technology ethics
Emerging technologies
Forecasting
Futures studies
Technology assessment
Uncertainty

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102325

ISSN

0160-791X

Source

Technology in Society, 74

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