Digital Development
Technology, Ethics and Governance
Published on 2. December 2025
428 pages
978-1-040-59700-2 (ISBN)
Description
This volume offers a multidisciplinary reflection on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and digitalization in technology, epistemology, ethics, and governance. It aims to encourage inclusive and responsible digital development capable of bridging global digital divides.
AI is playing an increasingly important role in our daily lives and in the development of world economies. In the face of the many potential benefits of AI, it is necessary to reflect on the potentially disruptive effects that the proliferation of new AI technologies may have on our societies. The volume begins with an analysis of some of the most important historical, epistemological, ethical, and phenomenological questions relevant to the concepts of digital development and digital innovation. It continues by reviewing and evaluating the merits and possibilities as well as the potential challenges associated to the widespread implementations of digital and artificial systems in 'lived environments' (in fields such software engineering, blockchain, data forecasting, and medicine). Finally, it looks -from the perspective of general policy making- at the impact of digital development in governance and politics by advocating human-centric values and emphasizing the need to design and adopt multipolar policies that prioritize equitable human flourishing and harmonious societal well-being.
Digital Development will appeal to scholars and graduate students in philosophy, computer science, politics, and sociology who are interested in artificial intelligence.
AI is playing an increasingly important role in our daily lives and in the development of world economies. In the face of the many potential benefits of AI, it is necessary to reflect on the potentially disruptive effects that the proliferation of new AI technologies may have on our societies. The volume begins with an analysis of some of the most important historical, epistemological, ethical, and phenomenological questions relevant to the concepts of digital development and digital innovation. It continues by reviewing and evaluating the merits and possibilities as well as the potential challenges associated to the widespread implementations of digital and artificial systems in 'lived environments' (in fields such software engineering, blockchain, data forecasting, and medicine). Finally, it looks -from the perspective of general policy making- at the impact of digital development in governance and politics by advocating human-centric values and emphasizing the need to design and adopt multipolar policies that prioritize equitable human flourishing and harmonious societal well-being.
Digital Development will appeal to scholars and graduate students in philosophy, computer science, politics, and sociology who are interested in artificial intelligence.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
21 Tables, black and white; 16 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Halftones, black and white; 23 Illustrations, black and white
File size
7,42 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-59700-2 (9781040597002)
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Additional editions
Book
approx. 12/2025
1st Edition
Routledge
€212.60
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Persons
Mirko Farina is a Full Professor of Philosophy of Technology and AI in the School of Philosophy and Social Development at Huaqiao University, a Talent C of the Fujian Province, and the Head of the Human-Machine Interaction Lab at the Institute for Digital Economy and Artificial Systems [Xiamen University and Lomonosov Moscow State University]. Personal webpage: https://mirkofarina.weebly.com/
Xiao Yu is the Founder and Executive Secretary-General of the Institute for Digital Economy & Artificial Systems. He is also the Founder and Director of the Sichuan Key Lab of Digital Administration & Intelligent Organization (DAIO Lab, 2023-), a government-affiliated research institute jointly build by Sichuan Provincial Big Data Bureau and Sichuan Administration Institute
Jin Chen is a Full Professor in the Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management. He is also the Director of Research Center for Technological Innovation, Tsinghua University.
Xiao Yu is the Founder and Executive Secretary-General of the Institute for Digital Economy & Artificial Systems. He is also the Founder and Director of the Sichuan Key Lab of Digital Administration & Intelligent Organization (DAIO Lab, 2023-), a government-affiliated research institute jointly build by Sichuan Provincial Big Data Bureau and Sichuan Administration Institute
Jin Chen is a Full Professor in the Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management. He is also the Director of Research Center for Technological Innovation, Tsinghua University.
Content
Introduction Part 1 1. Two Ways of Considering the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence 2. Artificial Intelligence: From a Logical and Ethical Point of View 3. Understanding the Financial Markets as a Sociotechnical Extended Cognitive System 4. Infringements of AI on Epistemic Autonomy: A Graded Approach 5. Locked and Unlocked Strategies, Creativity, and Spurious Correlations: Artificial Intelligence and Eco-Cognitive Openness 6. Ecological Phenomenology as Method to Assess Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects (ELSA) of AI from a Multi-level Perspective 7. Artificial Companions: Ethical Implications and Human-Machine Relationships in the Age of Intelligent Electronic Pets 8. A Philosophical Comparative Study of IBM Watson and GPT in NLP Part 2 9. The Digital Transformation of Software Development: A Synopsis of Recent Trends 10. Fuzzy Machine Learning and Generative Artificial Intelligence in Forecasting: What Drivers should the Policymakers Expect? 11. Digital Development with Blockchain Technologies: Case Studies of Lebanon and El Salvador 12. A Double Attention-aided U-Net Architecture for Skin Lesion and Histopathological Image Segmentation 13. Rethinking Explainability in AI for Diagnostic Imaging Part 3 14. Embodied Artificial Intelligence, Human-AI Interaction, and the Need for a Human Centric Digital Transformation 15. Navigating the Nexus: How Technology, Ethics, and Governance Shape a Sustainable Digital Future 16. Multipolarity in Digital International Relations 17. Regional Approaches to Information Security within the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Commonwealth of Independent States and Shanghai Cooperation Organization 18. Explainability and AI Governance: Between Argumentation and Conviction
