| Time: | June 7, 2018, 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. |
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| Venue: | University of Stuttgart Campus Vaihingen Hörsaal V47.03 Pfaffenwaldring 47 70569 Stuttgart |
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If one compares the debates surrounding the SÄNGER project in the early 1990s with modern space travel developments, one might assume that we have already missed the boat as far as ethics go. A (once misunderstood) interpretation of the ethics of technology as a “bike brake on an airbus” (Ulrich Beck) appears, in the face of the “technological evolution in the extraterrestrial” (Stanislaw Lem), to have become entirely meaningless. Although admittedly, the conflicts of values during that era (real use of technology, competing option values, opportunity costs) remain virulent today. What can thoughts on the ethics of technology contribute to a better orientation? And how can these operate in relation to engineering ethics (in the face of the division of labor involved in the development process)? And to what extent does the “technology itself” win in this situation when one considers our tendency to delegate responsibility to autonomous systems, new powers and organizations, as science fiction literature suggests?
This lecture composes a “map” of the various lines of argumentation and investigates strategies for gauging the ethics of technology.
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christoph Hubig, University of Darmstadt
