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Title:
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RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MAN AND MACHINE PONDERING UNDERLYING ASSUMPTIONS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES FOR USERS |
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Author(s):
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Hans Olav Omland |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8704-26-9 |
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Editors:
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Piet Kommers and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2021 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Information Systems Development, Modelling, Relationships, Ethics, Humans |
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Type:
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Full |
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First Page:
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69 |
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Last Page:
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76 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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The handling of an expected pandemic (covid-19), though with surprizing consequences, creates a dilemma in what to
prioritize, stated simply: lives or economy? The rapid spread of Internet, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence, and
millions of apps seem to be less surprising even though critical voices have for long raised concerns about the
consequences of this internet based 'pandemic'. Enterprises develop their own information systems without necessarily
explicating their strategies and what models the systems build on. The uncertainties of what is inside the systems, how
collected data is handled and used, along with the consequences of use in short and long-time perspective are therefore up
for ethical considerations presenting us with a dilemma, a social dilemma. The spread of all kinds of applications has
taken place basically in the lawless virtual country Internet with very few if any regulations of content. We therefore
question what considerations are made on the relationships between users and technology. We use Buber's 'I-You'/'I-It'
model analysing relationships between man and machine analyse data about Facebook, Amazon and Google/Google
Chrome including Artificial Intelligence. We find that development and deployment decisions of internet-based apps are
made based on values unknown to the users and that there is a lack of ethical standards which makes it difficult to draw
ethical conclusions. With few laws governing the lawless land Internet the future of the relationships between humans
and machines is open to exploitation from any actor that is able to provide the means needed presenting a choice between
lives and economy? |
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