Humans
Lecture
This week's lecture covers Humans and what can be lost by careless automation.
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Reading
Required - The Value of People to Each Other
"Carebots and Caregivers: Sustaining the Ethical Ideal of Care in the Twenty-First Century"
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-011-0015-x
Past weeks' readings have already covered some general cases of the impact of automation on the kinds of work people end up doing. So the required reading this week looks at the other end of the system: the potential impact on the target demographic of the automation. In this case, that is people in care.
Professor Shannon Vallor will also be out guest speaker next week, but then she will be talking more about personal traits that we and the wider public can try to embody as a means to producing more ethical systems.
Optional - The Value of Working With People
"Why working remotely feels so jarring – according to philosophy"
https://theconversation.com/why-working-remotely-feels-so-jarring-according-to-philosophy-135127
Topically delivered within a context that we can all relate to after the past year, this article talks about some of the value that work provides in our lives and how elements of automation that separate us from other people while doing that work (such as doing things remotely) might diminish that value.
Optional - Preferring Automated Systems Over Humans
"What we sacrifice for automation"
https://www.fastcompany.com/90336550/how-much-are-we-sacrificing-for-automation
This article talks about how, as parts of systems become more automated, the processes start to be designed more and more to accommodate the automation and not the people.
Optional - Social Networking and Social Bonds
"Social Networking and Ethics"
Social Networking and Ethics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
If you enjoy Shannon's writing in the main reading, this Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article covers another major technology that has massive impact on social interactions between people: social networks.