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Steven Umbrello

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Covers:  artificial intelligence, AI Ethics, Design, philosophy of technology
Managing Director @IEET | PostDoc @unito | Series Editor @thetrivent | Author of Mediated by Meaning (@Wipfandstock) & Vigilant Hope (@AscensionPress)
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Meaningful Human Control Over Smart Home Systems

Meaningful Human Control Over Smart Home Systems

Steven Umbrello Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies Keywords: meaningful human control, smart home…

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Value-Oriented and Ethical Technology Engineering in Industry 5.0: A Human-Centric Perspective fo...

Value-Oriented and Ethical Technology Engineering in Industry 5.0: A Human-Centric Perspective fo...

Although manufacturing companies are currently situated at a transition point in what has been called Industr…

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Imaginative Value Sensitive Design: Using Moral Imagination Theory to Inform Responsible Technolo...

Imaginative Value Sensitive Design: Using Moral Imagination Theory to Inform Responsible Technolo...

Safe-by-design (SBD) frameworks for the development of emerging technologies have become an ever more popular…

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The future of war: could lethal autonomous weapons make conflict more ethical?

The future of war: could lethal autonomous weapons make conflict more ethical?

Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWs) are robotic weapon systems, primarily of value to the military, that could e…

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Steps to Designing AI-Empowered Nanotechnology:

Steps to Designing AI-Empowered Nanotechnology:

Advanced nanotechnology promises to be one of the fundamental transformational emerging technologies alongsid…

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Explorative Nanophilosophy as Tecnoscienza. An Italian Perspective on the Role of Speculation in ...

Explorative Nanophilosophy as Tecnoscienza. An Italian Perspective on the Role of Speculation in ...

Explorative Nanophilosophy as Tecnoscienza. An Italian Perspective on the Role of Speculation in Nanoindustry

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Atomically Precise Manufacturing and Responsible Innovation: A Value Sensitive Design Approach to...

Atomically Precise Manufacturing and Responsible Innovation: A Value Sensitive Design Approach to...

Although continued investments in nanotechnology are made, atomically precise manufacturing (APM) to date is …

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Nonconscious Cognitive Suffering: Considering Suffering Risks of Embodied Artificial Intelligence

Nonconscious Cognitive Suffering: Considering Suffering Risks of Embodied Artificial Intelligence

Strong arguments have been formulated that the computational limits of disembodied artificial intelligence (A…

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Lethal Autonomous Weapons:

Lethal Autonomous Weapons:

Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWs) have becomes the subject of continuous debate both at national and internati…

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Beneficial Artificial Intelligence Coordination by Means of a Value Sensitive Design Approach

Beneficial Artificial Intelligence Coordination by Means of a Value Sensitive Design Approach

This paper argues that the Value Sensitive Design (VSD) methodology provides a principled approach to embeddi…

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View of Silence of the Idols: Appropriating the Myth of Sisyphus for Posthumanist Discourses

View of Silence of the Idols: Appropriating the Myth of Sisyphus for Posthumanist Discourses

Return to Article Details Silence of the Idols: Appropriating the Myth of Sisyphus for Posthumanist Discourses

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Evaluating future nanotechnology: The net societal impacts of atomically precise manufacturing

Evaluating future nanotechnology: The net societal impacts of atomically precise manufacturing

Atomically precise manufacturing (APM) is the assembly of materials with atomic precision. * APM is potential…

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The moral psychology of value sensitive design: the methodological issues of moral intuitions for...

The moral psychology of value sensitive design: the methodological issues of moral intuitions for...

This paper argues that although moral intuitions are insufficient for making judgments on new technological i…

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A Value-Sensitive Design Approach to Intelligent Agents

A Value-Sensitive Design Approach to Intelligent Agents

18 Pages Posted: 29 Jan 2018 Date Written: 2018 This chapter proposed a novel design methodology called Value…

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Designing Smart Operator 4.0 for Human Values: A Value Sensitive Design Approach

Designing Smart Operator 4.0 for Human Values: A Value Sensitive Design Approach

Emerging technologies such as cloud computing, augmented and virtual reality, artificial intelligence and rob…

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Values, Imagination, and Praxis : Towards a Value Sensitive Future with Technology

Values, Imagination, and Praxis : Towards a Value Sensitive Future with Technology

This is a preview of subscription content, log in to check access. Czeskis, A., Dermendjieva, I., Yapit, H., …

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Fragile Umanità by Leonardo Caffo

Fragile Umanità by Leonardo Caffo

Review: [Untitled] Review by: Steven Umbrello Journal of Posthuman Studies DOI: 10.5325/jpoststud.3.1.0105 Th…

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Book review: Being Ecological by Timothy Morton

Book review: Being Ecological by Timothy Morton

From its opening page, Being Ecological (MIT Press, 2018; all page references to this edition) seems to situa…

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Moving to a Posthuman Technosphere

Moving to a Posthuman Technosphere

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