TY - JOUR
T1 - From speculation to reality: Enhancing anticipatory ethics for emerging technologies (ATE) in practice
AU - Umbrello, Steven
AU - Bernstein, Michael J.
AU - Vermaas, Pieter E.
AU - Resseguier, Anaïs
AU - Gonzalez, Gustavo
AU - Porcari, Andrea
AU - Grinbaum, Alexei
AU - Adomaitis, Laurynas
PY - 2023/8/1
Y1 - 2023/8/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102325
U2 - 10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102325
DO - 10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102325
M3 - Article
SN - 0160-791X
VL - 74
JO - Technology in Society
JF - Technology in Society
M1 - 102325
ER -