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Digitalization allows for the increased outsourcing of thinking and decision-making to machines, enables the collection of enormous amounts of data on all aspects of our lives, and makes human civilization increasingly dependent on digital infrastructure. This “ABC” of digitization - algorithms, big data and cybersecurity - needs ethical orientation to ensure that digital change is moving in the right direction.
To this end, the Digital Ethics Lab of the DSI (DSI-DEL) has built up an extensive research pipeline to analyse the burning questions of digital transformation and find answers to questions such as: How do we ensure that decisions made by artificial intelligence are fair? How can the data collected about us be used for the benefit of all? How far can our privacy be invaded when it comes to cybersecurity? How does the digitalisation of everyday life affect people as moral beings?
The DSI-DEL is the research core of the Ethics Community of the Digital Society Initiative (DSI). The Ethics Community unites all researchers of the DSI who work explicitly on ethical questions of digitisation. Currently (beginning of 2020), there are about 30 researchers in the community. The Ethics Community forms a “Cross-Cutting Activity” of the DSI.
Part of the DSI-DEL are researchers who are directly involved in ethics projects of the DSI or collaborate in third-party funded projects affiliated to the DSI.
Currently, these are the following researchers:
PD Dr. Markus Christen (IBME & DSI)
Olivia Hänni (master student)
Ana-Marija Ivancevic (master student)
Serhiy Kandul (DSI)
Dr. Markus Kneer (Centre of Ethics)
Dr. Michele Loi (IBME & DSI)
Maika Schelb (master student)
Suzanne Tolmeijer (IfI)
Dr. Ning Wang (DSI)
Rebecca Warth (master student)
Former collaborators:
Roxane Bachmann (master student, 2016-2017)
Nadine Corbach (master student, 2015-2017)
Samuel Eckstein (master student, 2015-2017)
Martina Gloor (master student, 2015-2017)
Christian Ineichen (2011-2016)
Johannes Katsarov (2016-2020)
Manasseh Seidenberg (master student, 2016-2017)
Priyatharsan Yoganathan (master student, 2015-2016)
In recent years, the DSI-DEL has built up a comprehensive project pipeline and is successfully operating in the field of classical research funding (National Fund, Innosuisse, etc.):
Algorithms:
Big Data:
Cybersecurity:
Other topics:
Former third-party funded projects (since 2017):