Solidarity has returned as a central concept in political theory, activist discourse, and AI ethics — yet it is rarely asked whether the digital infrastructures through which solidarity is increasingly enacted are compatible with solidarity's cons
This paper introduces the ‘Schwartz Value Circle’ (Schwartz & Bilsky, 1990; Schwartz et al., 2012; Schwartz, 2021), as a tool that helps municipalities reflect on the impact of 'smart city' technology.
This panel, organised under the ESDiT line on Democracy, Justice and Solidarity (DJS), examines how socially disruptive technologies are reshaping solidarity as a moral and political practice.
Relational values aim to capture the moral worth of features of nature or society that are neither intrinsic nor merely instrumental. This matters for environmental ethics (Pascual et al.
The rapid loss of biodiversity has been described as the sixth mass extinction event which has jeopardised human wellbeing (Wollmuth et al., 2022; Lewis & Maslin, 2015).
Contemporary AI governance discourse is often dominated by Western and anthropocentric frameworks, to the exclusion of indigenous sociocultural lived experiences.
The use of AI to produce creative content and support human creative work may lead to “authorship gaps”, situations in which a product displays the typical features of a human creativity, but it is difficult or impossible to attribute the product
Critical analyses of large socio-technical systems often diagnose depoliticization: political life is said to give way to technocratic governance whose apolitical veneer conceals contestation beneath procedural even-handedness (e.g. Brown 2015).
We present the methodological challenges of applying Value Sensitive Design (VSD) to a technological development in a transdisciplinary setting, particularly when working with stakeholders who are not familiar with “values language”.
Mainstream philosophy and ethics of technology draws on a recognisably Euro-American canon, and the standard remedy for this narrowness is to widen the reading list by adding Ubuntu, Confucian role ethics, Buddhist ethics, or Buen Vivir to the con