Technomoral Virtues, Human Flourishing and the Bootstrapping Problem
How can we ensure that the co-evolution of humans and their technologies will lead to a future worth wanting or indeed to any future for humanity and our planet?
Dr. Shannon Vallor will be giving a lecture at Reykjavik University Friday, February 25, at 3PM in room M101 at RU.
Our every day lives are being transformed and shaped by rapid advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, new social media, surveillance, and biomedical technologies to name but a few. Are humans in control of those technologies or are they just shaped by them? How can we ensure that the co-evolution of humans and their technologies will lead to a future worth wanting or indeed to any future for humanity and our planet?
These are some of the themes that Shannon (https://www.shannonvallor.net/) will discuss during her public talk at Reykjavik University. Building on ancient philosophical traditions from across the globe and applying them to our modern world, she will describe how we might prepare ourselves to develop technologies that foster and improve human experience by focusing on what she has called technomoral virtues—skilled dispositions to judge and act well in the modern technosocial arena. Shannon Vallor is one of the foremost thinkers on the connections between ethics and technology. She holds the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh's Edinburgh Futures Institute, where she directs the Centre for Technomoral Futures.
