Seminar Tübingen-Nancy
Philosophical aspects of computer sciences – Ethics, Norms & Responsibility
Organisation : Maël Pégny, Reinhard Kahle, Thomas Piecha, Anna Zielinska, Cyrille Imbert
Marija Slavkovik
Professor at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen
Digital Voodoo Dolls
21 March 2022, Monday
17:00 (CET/heure de Paris)
Please register by clicking here (for this and for the future meetings of the seminar)
Both the lecture and the discussion will be in English.
Lundi 21 mars 2022, à 17h00, en ligne. L'exposé et la discussion auront lieu en anglais.
Cf. Facebook event
Abstract
An institution, be it a body of government, commercial enterprise, or a service, cannot interact directly with a person. Instead, a model is created to represent us. We argue the existence of a new high-fidelity type of person model which we call a digital voodoo doll. We conceptualize it and compare its features with existing models of persons. Digital voodoo dolls are distinguished by existing completely beyond the influence and control of the person they represent. We discuss the ethical issues that such a lack of accountability creates and argue how these concerns can be mitigated.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3461702.3462626
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Maël Pégny
(Researcher at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Carl Friedrich von Weiszäcker Zentrum)
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Carmela Troncoso
(École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), SPRING Lab)
TBA
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Marija Slavkovik
(Professor at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen)
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Karoline Reinhardt
(Researcher at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Internationales Zentrum für Ethik/IZEW)
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For the recording of the seminar, please check here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_7w_H-zjjuEqhh4gLTWg5MbmbTfGmXIU