Topic: Digital responsibility
The digital transformation in all areas of life leads to ethical and legal issues when digital technologies are used for the common good, ranging from ensuring digital participation to data security.
What is software?
What is software? The word Software is on everybody’s lips; software engineering is considered the key discipline par excellence and it is said that software “eats the world”. In this article, we explain: what software…
Embedding ethics into every step of emerging technologies
What exactly does it mean to ‘embed’ ethics into technology and how can this be effectively accomplished? Here we outline our Responsible Robotics project, along with some challenges and benefits of the embedded ethics…
What is … Sharenting
When parents publish photos of their children in social media or forward them via messenger, they may be violating their personal rights. The lawyer Katharina Starz examines the phenomenon of “sharenting”.
Piggybacking data
The right to data portability is hardly known and difficult to implement. A bidt project is investigating how users can gain more control over their own data.
Capturing the dynamics of digital transformation
The lawyer Eric Hilgendorf examines the extent to which technical developments need to be re-regulated in the course of the digital transformation. Often, the current rules would suffice.
Responsible Robotics – What could possibly go wrong?
Imagine that your elderly relative lives at home with her assistive care robot, which is tasked to help her with day-to-day activities. Then one day you receive a call to say that your relative has been found unconscious on the floor,…
Codes of Ethics for Software Development: Why they are only of minor use
Codes of ethics in the context of software development lack practical applicability, as they cannot solve emerging conflicts of values. Our approach “Ethical Deliberation for Agile Software Processes” (EDAP) takes up ethical…
Ethics and software: what works, what doesn’t?
Philosopher Julian Nida-Rümelin and computer scientist Alexander Pretschner are jointly researching how ethical considerations can already be integrated into the development of software.
Research, enlighten, shape
Alexander Pretschner helps to deepen the understanding of digital transformation and its consequences – the prerequisite for shaping digitalisation.