Digital Humanism : For a Humane Transformation of Democracy, Economy and Culture in the Digital Age /

This open access book deals with cultural and philosophical aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) and pleads for a "digital humanism". This term is beginning to be en vogue everywhere. Due to a growing discontentment with the way digitalization is being used in the world, particularly fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Nida-Rümelin, Julian (Author), Weidenfeld, Nathalie (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.
Edition:	1st ed. 2022.
Subjects:	Computers and civilization. Science-Philosophy. Political science. Communication in science. Computers-Law and legislation. Information technology-Law and legislation. Computers and Society. Philosophy of Science. Political Theory. Science Communication. Legal Aspects of Computing. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Robots as New (Digital) Slaves
3. Digital Simulations of Emotions
4. The Problem of Autonomy and Determination in the Digital World
5. The World as the Perfect Machine Universe
6. Digital Optimization, Utilitarianism and AI
7. Economic Rationality as a Software Program
8. Why Robots Don't Have Moral Judgment
9. Ethical Non-Comparability
10. Why AIs Fail at Moral Dilemmas
11. Why AIs Can't Think
12. Digital Virtualities and Sober Realities
13. On the Ethics of Internet Communication
14. On the Ethics of Communication between Humans and AI
15. Cultural Aspects of Digitalisation
16. Digital Education
17. Utopia of Liquid Democracy
18. Socio-Economic Aspects of Digitisation
19. Transhumanist Temptations
20. On the Metaphysics of digitalisation
21. Afterword.