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Area of Science:

  • Technology Ethics
  • Emerging Technologies
  • Societal Impact of Technology

Background:

  • Safe-by-design (SBD) frameworks aim to integrate human values into emerging technologies.
  • Value Sensitive Design (VSD) is a prominent SBD methodology focusing on stakeholder values.
  • VSD relies on philosophical and ethical literature to navigate moral trade-offs.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To critically evaluate the grounding of moral values within the VSD methodology.
  • To analyze the strengths and weaknesses of VSD's value-investigation processes.
  • To propose enhancements for VSD, particularly for nano-bio-info-cogno technologies.

Main Methods:

  • Deconstruction of VSD's value-investigation approaches.
  • Ethical analysis of VSD's application to emerging technologies.
  • Exploration of moral imagination as a complementary framework.

Main Results:

  • The VSD methodology exhibits limitations in determining moral values for complex emerging technologies.
  • VSD's reliance on universal moral values may be insufficient for nuanced ethical considerations.
  • Moral imagination offers a potential pathway to strengthen VSD's capacity for value integration.

Conclusions:

  • The VSD framework requires strengthening to adequately address the ethical complexities of nano-bio-info-cogno technologies.
  • Moral imagination provides a valuable tool to extend beyond moral intuitions in technology design.
  • Integrating moral imagination can lead to more robust and ethically sound SBD frameworks.