Previous research has shown that the use of AI technologies in livestock farming within the stable can significantly alter farmers’ experiences of animals and farming practices.
Emerging technologies disrupt the fundamental concepts through which we make sense of the world (Hopster & Löhr 2023, Marchiori & Scharp 2024, Anderson et al 2026).
In this paper I highlight the ethical implications of climate engineered futures, conceptualizing these technologies as liminal mediations and disruptions of hard and soft adaptation limits.
Recent efforts to bring Confucian rituals (li) into philosophy of technology present them as a promising multicultural perspective for addressing ethical challenges posed by emerging technologies.