The Algorithmic Code of Ethics Ethics at the Bedside of the Digital Revolution [Hardcover]

The technical progress illustrated by the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), online platforms, NBICs, autonomous expert systems, and the Blockchain let appear the possibility of a new world and the emergence of a fourth industrial revolution centered around digital data. Therefore, the advent of digital and its omnipresence in our modern society create a growing need to lay ethical benchmarks against this new religion of data, the dataisme .

Foreword vii
Lina WILLIATTE

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

Chapter 1. Ethics at the Service of Digital Technology 1

1.1. Towards a new paradigm of the digital society 2

1.2. Questions regarding the algorithmic universe 8

1.3. Ethics as a digital compass 19

1.4. Ethical challenges and risks regarding algorithmic processing 27

1.5. The environmental parameters of digital technology 37

1.6. What is the place of mankind in this digital society? 43

Chapter 2. The Code is Ethics and Ethics is the Code 55

2.1. Nature, the creator of codes, programming and algorithms 56

2.2. Algorithmic Darwinism 62

2.3. The evolutionary digital world 64

2.4. Environmental ethics 67

2.5. Algorithmic ethics 72

2.5.1. The symbiotic bridge between algorithms and ethics 75

2.5.2. Trust at the heart of a new ethics 79

2.5.3. The “blockchainization” of ethics 87

2.6. The codification of ethics via a process of networks of neurons 90

2.7. The complexity around an ethical AI 98

2.8. The Neol“+