Playing god with emerging technologies : how to avoid the traps of techno-optimism and techno-pessimism /
Public debates over the morality of new or emerging technologies tend to devolve into false dichotomies of optimism versus pessimism. Playing God with Emerging Technologies: How to Avoid the Traps of Techno-Optimism and Techno-Pessimism provides a conceptual apparatus for engaging in such debates in...
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2025].
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Table of Contents:
- The ethics of new or emerging technologies
- "Playing god" arguments
- An argumentation scheme for "playing god" arguments
- How to evaluate "playing god" arguments
- Are we "playing god" with geoengineering?
- Are we "playing god" with artificial intelligence?
- Are we "playing god" with autonomous vehicles?
- Are we "playing god" with lethal autonomous weapon systems?