Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Deals with cultural and philosophical aspects of artificial intelligence and pleads for a “digital humanism”
- Philosophically sound and yet written in a way that will make it accessible for everybody interested in the subject
- Provides a vision of what it means to live in a world where AI is a central technology for a more humane civilization
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This open access book deals with cultural and philosophical aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) and pleads for a “digital humanism”. This term is beginning to be en vogue everywhere. Due to a growing discontentment with the way digitalization is being used in the world, particularly formulated by former heroes of Internet, social media and search engine companies, philosophical as well as industrial thought leaders begin to plead for a humane use of digital tools. Yet the term “digital humanism” is a particular terminology that lacks a sound conceptual and philosophical basis and needs clarification still – and this gap is exactly filled by this book. It propagates a vision of society in which digitization is used to strengthen human self-determination, autonomy and dignity and whose time has come to be propagated throughout the world.
The advantage of this book is that it is philosophically sound and yet written in a way that will make it accessible for everybody interested in the subject. Every chapters begins with a film scene illustrating a precise philosophical problem with AI and how we look at it – making the book not only readable, but even entertaining. And after having read the book the reader will have a clear vision of what it means to live in a world where digitization and AI are central technologies for a better and more humane civilization.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Julian Nida-Rümelin is one of the most well-known philosophers in Germany and Europe and an important opinion leader in Germany who has published inside and outside of academia. He was State Minister for Culture in the socialist-green national government of Gerhard Schröder in 2001/2002. In 2017 the Bavarian Government awarded him with the Medal of the Bavarian State for special merits on the Bavarian economy and in 2019 he received the Bavarian Distinguished Service Award. Since 2020 he has been part of the German Ethics Council.
Nathalie Weidenfeld is a well-known author and acted as co-writer in this project. She published inside and outside academia and taught film at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. She is part of the Bavarian Ethics Commission.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Digital Humanism
Book Subtitle: For a Humane Transformation of Democracy, Economy and Culture in the Digital Age
Authors: Julian Nida-Rümelin, Nathalie Weidenfeld
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12482-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12481-5Published: 15 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-12482-2Published: 14 September 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 127
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Computers and Society, Philosophy of Science, Political Theory, Science and Technology Studies, Media and Communication, Legal Aspects of Computing