Carissa Veliz on Digital Ethics

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Nigel Warburton

Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Digital ethics is a new field. But what is it, what is its scope? In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Carissa Véliz, author of Privacy is Power and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics, discusses these topics with Nigel Warburton.

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0:00.0	This is Philosophy Bites with me, Nigel Warburton and me, David Edmunds.
0:07.7	If you enjoy Philosophy Bites, please support us. We're currently unfunded and all donations
0:12.5	would be gratefully received. For details go to www.philosophybites.com
0:19.1	There's a relatively new subplot of moral philosophy. For obvious reasons, digital ethics
0:25.1	didn't exist in Aristotle's day. In fact, the term digital ethics didn't even exist
0:30.9	when Philosophy Bites launched in 2007. Digital ethics covers ethical issues to do with
0:37.8	the ever-increasing role being played by data, AI and the internet. And it's what
0:43.0	Curissa Valise researches at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI.
0:47.5	Curissa Valise, welcome to Philosophy Bites.
0:50.2	Thank you for having me, Nigel.
0:52.2	The topic we're going to focus on today is digital ethics. Is there something special
0:57.3	about digital ethics? And we have medical ethics, practical ethics, ethics of biology, there's
1:03.5	an ethics of everything. What's special about digital ethics?
1:07.1	On the one hand, it's not very different from other kinds of ethics. You have some of
1:12.1	the basic kind of questions like what we do, what kind of life do we want to lead, how
1:16.6	do we get there. But on the other hand, every subfield of practical ethics has its own
1:22.9	particularities. So for instance, in medical ethics, you have issues of life and death,
1:27.0	there are patients, there are doctors, and all these specifics make it the case that we
1:32.3	need a particular kind of knowledge to tackle these issues. And the same with digital ethics.
1:38.3	We have, for instance, a lot of data collection, which has very particular characteristics,
1:44.1	like it's very invisible, it's very complex to understand, it can lead to inferences
1:51.5	that nobody can predict. And all of these kinds of details make it the case that we need
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