Mapping critical issues Sample Clauses
Mapping critical issues. After the examination of the value in the artefact, we are now going to map out the critical issues that attach to da Vinci and its use. We believe that the main critical issues revolve around the following aspects. Changes in human-human interactions Safety Autonomy Justice and New Technologies Responsibility Privacy Before we go into detail about these aspects we mention, however, that this list is not exhaustive. It is hard to tell in advance which ethical problems da Vinci will give rise to in the future. The best we can do, at this stage, is to consider past experiences with surgical robots and learn lessons from earlier warnings about surgical devices that have been used in the past as, e.g., ROBODOC and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ (▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, 2013).
3.4.1 Changes in human-human interactions
Mapping critical issues. Automated cars are not good or bad per se. Instead, they “switch on” several ethical issues16 such as safety (in the sense of protection of life and protection of the environment), surveillance and privacy (data protection, ownership of data, confidentiality), freedom (autonomy, mobility, personality), and justice (accessibility). These values are mobilized by players in the field of automated cars as justifications of their social desirability and by sceptical voices as a motivation of their criticism (see § 3.1). Furthermore, these ideas of “goodness” and normative views about societal benefits are encoded in design choices and enacted in stakeholders’ practices (see § 3.
