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Ethical Calibration for an Intelligent Analysis Society

  • DUAN Weiwen
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  • Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100732, China

Published date: 15 Jun 2022

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2022 Higher Education Press

Abstract

With the widespread application of data-driven intelligent technologies, data is increasingly used to record and influence the behavior of the world and people. Although the value rationality of dataism behind the dataization of the world has yet to be thoroughly analyzed, the new data analysis society which is characterized by an intelligent social form has quietly arrived. From a phenomenological point of view, the foundation of the operation and governance of a data analysis society is to analyze human behavior by using data and intelligent algorithms, but this kind of intelligent surveillance is speculative cognition, which may misread and improperly interfere with the agency of observed. There is an urgent need to set boundaries for possible technological abuse. At the same time, in view of the fact that data-driven social computing attempts to influence human behavior through the calculation of human behavior, the value of human behavior itself should be questioned as a problem to be solved. Further, in the face of the potential challenges of machine cognition and engineering thinking to human nature in the construction of an intelligent society, it is urgent to construct an ethical reflection arc that can restrict and correct its abuse.

Cite this article

DUAN Weiwen . Ethical Calibration for an Intelligent Analysis Society[J]. Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 2022 , 17(2) : 244 -257 . DOI: 10.3868/s030-011-022-0010-2

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