Abstract
In the present paper I argue that the exponential growth of technology has led to a situation in which mechanical engineers inevitably will have to address ethical questions. Henry Kissinger called artificial intelligence a potentially dominating technology that urgently needs a guiding philosophy. It is my opinion that it is the 18th century philosophy of the Enlightenment that can still help us out. The ethical issues concern not only the UN’s sustainable development goals but all other ethical aspects of modern mechanical engineering design as well. I argue that it is desirable that IFToMM (the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science) explicitly adopts this view.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of I4SDG Workshop 2021 |
| Subtitle of host publication | IFToMM for Sustainable Development Goals |
| Editors | Giuseppe Quaglia, Alessandro Gasparetto, Victor Petuya, Giuseppe Carbone |
| Place of Publication | Cham |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media B.V. |
| Pages | 575-585 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783030873837 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783030873820, 9783030873851 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
| Event | 1st Workshop IFToMM for Sustainable Development Goals, I4SDG 2021 - Virtual, Online Duration: 25 Nov 2021 → 26 Nov 2021 |
Publication series
| Name | Mechanisms and Machine Science |
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| Volume | 108 MMS |
| ISSN (Print) | 2211-0984 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 2211-0992 |
Conference
| Conference | 1st Workshop IFToMM for Sustainable Development Goals, I4SDG 2021 |
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| City | Virtual, Online |
| Period | 25/11/21 → 26/11/21 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Keywords
- Artificial intelligence
- Codes of ethics
- IFToMM
- Machine ethics
- Mechanical engineering
- SDG17