Ethics from Within: Google Glass, the Collingridge Dilemma, and the Mediated Value of Privacy
Ethics from Within: Google Glass, the Collingridge Dilemma, and the Mediated Value of Privacy
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内部道德：谷歌眼镜、科林里奇困境和隐私的中介价值
DOI：
10.1177/0162243918793711
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2018
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P. Verbeek
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作者：
O. Kudina;P. Verbeek
遵循科林里奇的“控制困境”，当技术发展的影响尚未显现时，影响技术发展是容易的，但一旦我们知道这些影响，它们就很难改变。本文在当代技术伦理学的背景下重新审视了科林里奇困境，技术影响了社会和我们用来评估它们的价值框架。在其发展的早期，我们不知道技术将如何影响评估它的价值框架，而后来，当对社会和道德的影响更加清晰时，就更难引导其朝着理想的方向发展。目前解决这一困境的方法集中在预测技术的伦理影响的方法（“技术道德情景”），过于投机而不可靠，或者集中在伦理上规范技术发展（“社会技术实验”），放弃对未来影响的预测。我们提出的技术调解的方法作为一种替代方案，侧重于技术和人类价值观之间的相互作用的动态。通过调查关于谷歌眼镜的在线讨论，我们研究了人们如何表达隐私价值的新含义。这种对“正在形成的道德”的研究允许发展一种适度的、经验性的预期形式。
Following the “control dilemma” of Collingridge, influencing technological developments is easy when their implications are not yet manifest, yet once we know these implications, they are difficult to change. This article revisits the Collingridge dilemma in the context of contemporary ethics of technology, when technologies affect both society and the value frameworks we use to evaluate them. Early in its development, we do not know how a technology will affect the value frameworks from which it will be evaluated, while later, when the implications for society and morality are clearer, it is more difficult to guide the development in a desirable direction. Present-day approaches to this dilemma focus on methods to anticipate ethical impacts of a technology (“technomoral scenarios”), being too speculative to be reliable, or on ethically regulating technological developments (“sociotechnical experiments”), discarding anticipation of the future implications. We present the approach of technological mediation as an alternative that focuses on the dynamics of the interaction between technologies and human values. By investigating online discussions about Google Glass, we examine how people articulate new meanings of the value of privacy. This study of “morality in the making” allows developing a modest and empirically informed form of anticipation.