Results for 'steven umbrello'

1. Steven Umbrello
2. Paul O'Hara

Can AI Ever Be Human?

Paul O' Hara is a professor of ontology and scientific rationality at Sophia University, Italy. Steven Umbrello is Managing Director at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

Theology of Human Enhancement in Western Traditions

James Hughes is the Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, is a bioethicist and sociologist who serves as the Associate Provost for Institutional Research, Assessment and Planning for the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the author of numerous academic articles. His latest books are The Biopolitics of Human Enhancement (2024, co-edited with Steven Umbrello and Cristiano Calì) and Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future (2004). Steven Umbrello is the Managing Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Delft University of Technology, and a Stiftung Südtiroler Sparkasse Global Fellow at Eurac Research. He studied philosophy of science and technology at the University of Toronto (H.B.A), epistemology, ethics, and mind at the University of Edinburgh (MSc), science and technology studies at York University (MA), and the ethics and design of AI at the Northwestern Italian Philosophy Consortium (PhD). His research focuses more broadly on value sensitive design, its philosophical foundations, as well as its application to novel technologies like AI, nanotech, and Industry 4.0. His latest books are The Biopolitics of Human Enhancement (2024, co-edited with James Hughes and Cristiano Calì) and Technology Ethics: Responsible Innovation and Design Strategies (2024). Cristiano Calì is a a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Turin and associate researcher at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging. He studied philosophy at the University of Catania (Italy) and philosophy of mind, ethics, and technology studies at the University of Italian Switzerland (PhD). His main research areas are: philosophy of free will, decision making applied to AI, moral philosophy and the connection of philosophical and technological issues with theological doctrines. His latest book is The Biopolitics of Human Enhancement (2024, co-edited with James Hughes and Steven Umbrello).

Digitally Divided

1. Matteo Galletti

The Morality Pill

The Biopolitics of Human Enhancement

James Hughes is the Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. He works as a bioethicist and sociologist and also serves as the Associate Provost for Institutional Research, Assessment and Planning for the University of Massachusetts in Boston. Steven Umbrello is currently the Managing Director at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and a research fellow at the University of Turin working on the theology of Bernard Lonergan applied to artificial intelligence. He is also an associate researcher at the Collège des Bernardins, where he works on digital humanism, and was previously a research fellow at the Delft University of Technology and the Center for Religious Studies at the Bruno Kessler Foundation. He is the editor of several international academic journals, including the International Journal of Technoethics, the Journal of Responsible Technology, and the Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies. He was formerly a Stiftung Südtiroler Sparkasse Global Fellow at Eurac Research, where he worked on the philosophy, religion, and society program. Cristiano Calì is a post-doctoral fellow at the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas in Rome and at the Università degli Studi di Torino, where he works on the philosophy of mind, moral philosophy and AI ethics. He is also an associate researcher at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) in Boston.

1. Steven Umbrello

Technology Ethics

"In this concise and very accessible book, Steven Umbrello provides a much-needed cost/benefit analysis of the existing ways of making sense of technology – instrumentalism, determinism, constructivism – and then engineers a new interactionist framework that is agile, dynamic and capable of scaling to the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century and beyond. It is essential knowledge for engineers, philosophers and anyone seeking to understand the way that our technological tools both reflect and influence human values."David J. Gunkel, Northern Illinois University"Much contemporary work on technology ethics is focused on cases and artefacts. Umbrello also gives the reader guidance on how to implement ethics in design and on responsible innovation, but at the same time helpfully connects technology ethics to key concepts in philosophy of technology. Yet Technology Ethics does not only offer a philosophically informed overview of a highly relevant field; it also contains an important normative message: if technology is not just a tool, but shapes the world, engineers have an important responsibility to help make the world a better place."Mark Coeckelbergh, University of Vienna