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Is it Research or is it Spying? Thinking-Through Ethics in Big Data AI and Other Knowledge Sciences

verfasst von: Bettina Berendt, Marco Büchler, Geoffrey Rockwell

Erschienen in: KI - Künstliche Intelligenz | Ausgabe 2/2015

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“How to be a knowledge scientist after the Snowden revelations?” is a question we all have to ask as it becomes clear that our work and our students could be involved in the building of an unprecedented surveillance society. In this essay, we argue that this affects all the knowledge sciences such as AI, computational linguistics and the digital humanities. Asking the question calls for dialogue within and across the disciplines. In this article, we will position ourselves with respect to typical stances towards the relationship between (computer) technology and its uses in a surveillance society, and we will look at what we can learn from other fields. We will propose ways of addressing the question in teaching and in research, and conclude with a call to action.

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Titel: Is it Research or is it Spying? Thinking-Through Ethics in Big Data AI and Other Knowledge Sciences
verfasst von: Bettina Berendt
Marco Büchler
Geoffrey Rockwell
Publikationsdatum: 01.06.2015
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in: KI - Künstliche Intelligenz / Ausgabe 2/2015
Print ISSN: 0933-1875
Elektronische ISSN: 1610-1987
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-015-0355-2

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