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Swart, J.A.A. (author), van de Poel, I.R. (author)Hybrid potato breeding is an emerging technology that can have a strong impact on the potato sector by replacing seed potatoes with true seeds. The Netherlands is a world leader in certified seed potatoes and a number of Dutch companies play a pivotal role in the development of this technology. This implies a certain responsibility for the...book chapter 2023
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van de Poel, I.R. (author)Due to their self-learning and evolutionary character, AI (Artificial Intelligence) systems are more prone to unintended consequences and more difficult to control than traditional sociotechnical systems. To deal with this, machine ethicists have proposed to build moral (reasoning) capacities into AI systems by designing artificial moral agents....book chapter 2023
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van de Poel, I.R. (author), Kudina, O. (author)We propose a pragmatist account of value change that helps to understand how and why values sometimes change due to technological developments. Inspired by John Dewey’s writings on value, we propose to understand values as evaluative devices that carry over from earlier experiences and that are to some extent shared in society. We discuss the...journal article 2022
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van de Poel, I.R. (author)The possibility of value change has implications for how to responsibly develop and deploy new technologies. If values can, and do, change after technologies have been developed and designed, this would seem to have major ramifications for approaches such as value-sensitive design and responsible innovation. This contribution explores...journal article 2022
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- Taebi, B. (author), van Asselt, Marjolein (author), van de Poel, I.R. (author) journal article 2022
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van de Poel, I.R. (author)This commentary is a response to Contextual Integrity as a General Conceptual Tool for Evaluating Technological Change by Elizabeth O’Neill (Philosophy & Technology (2022)). It argues that while contextual integrity (CI) might be an useful addition to the toolkit of approaches for ethical technology assessment, a CI approach might not be...journal article 2022
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van de Poel, I.R. (author), Taebi, B. (author)The ongoing energy transition toward more sustainable energy systems implies a change in the values for which such systems are designed. The energy transition however is not just about sustainability but also about values like energy security and affordability, and we witness the emergence of new values like energy justice and energy democracy....contribution to periodical 2022
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Nickel, Philip J. (author), Kudina, O. (author), van de Poel, I.R. (author)This paper explores the role of moral uncertainty in explaining the morally disruptive character of new technologies. We argue that existing accounts of technomoral change do not fully explain its disruptiveness. This explanatory gap can be bridged by examining the epistemic dimensions of technomoral change, focusing on moral uncertainty and...journal article 2022
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van de Poel, I.R. (author), de Wildt, T.E. (author), Oosterlaken, E.T. (author), van den Hoven, M.J. (author)Supported by the arrival of 5G and, soon 6G, digital technologies are evolving towards an artificial intelligence-driven internet of robotic and bionano things. The merging of artificial intelligence (AI) with other technologies such as the internet of things (IoT) gives rise to acronyms such as 'AIoT', 'IoRT' (IoT and robotics) and 'IoBNT' (IoT...report 2022
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van de Poel, I.R. (author), de Wildt, T.E. (author), van Kooten Pássaro, Dyami (author)We study value change due to the corona pandemic. With the help of topic modelling, we analysed COVID-related news articles for changes in the frequency of how often these news articles address eleven different values. We looked at news articles from six countries (US, UK, South Africa, India, Japan, South Korea) and new articles spanning a...book chapter 2022
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Hayes, P.D. (author), van de Poel, I.R. (author), Steen, Marc (author)Algorithms and AI tools are becoming increasingly influential artefacts in commercial and governance contexts. Algorithms and AI tools are not value neutral; to some extent they must be rendered knowable and known as objects, and in their implementation and deployment, to see clearly and understand their implications for moral values, and what...journal article 2022
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van de Poel, I.R. (author)The idea of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has become popular over the last decade to ensure that innovators take into account the social and ethical concerns that their innovations may raise, and organize their innovation processes so that they respond to the needs and values of society. In recent years, there has been increasing...book chapter 2021
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van de Poel, I.R. (author)Technologie ist eng mit Werten verbunden. Gelegentlich gefährden Technologien bestimmte Werte, beispielsweise Gesundheit und Sicherheit, so wie es 2011 bei der Atomkatastrophe in Fukushima der Fall war. Aber Technologien können auch Werte unterstützen, wie beispielsweise das menschliche Wohlbefinden, die Demokratie oder den Schutz der...book chapter 2021
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Umbrello, S. (author), van de Poel, I.R. (author)Value sensitive design (VSD) is an established method for integrating values into technical design. It has been applied to different technologies and, more recently, to artificial intelligence (AI). We argue that AI poses a number of challenges specific to VSD that require a somewhat modified VSD approach. Machine learning (ML), in particular,...journal article 2021
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van de Poel, I.R. (author)It has long been recognized that technology is value-laden. In the last few decades, a number of approaches—such as value sensitive design (VSD)—have been developed to systematically and explicitly address values in design. This contribution discusses four general issues that any approach aiming at integrating values into design should address: ...book chapter 2021
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Klenk, M.B.O.T. (author), van de Poel, I.R. (author)Pandemics like COVID-19 confront us with decisions about life and death that come with great uncertainty, factual as well as moral. How should policy makers deal with such uncertainty? We suggest that rather than to deliberate until they have found the right course of action, they better do moral experiments that generate relevant experiences...journal article 2021
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van Gelder, P.H.A.J.M. (author), Taebi, B. (author), van Ommen, J.R. (author), van de Poel, I.R. (author), Asveld, L. (author), Balkenende, A.R. (author), Hollmann, F. (author), van Kampen, E. (author), Krebbers, R.J. (author), de Lange, J. (author), Terwel, K.C. (author), Visser, Eelco (author)In this paper, we provide an overview of how Safe-by-Design is conceived and applied in practice in a large number of engineering disciplines. We discuss the differences, commonalities, and possibilities for mutual learning found in those practices and identify several ways of putting those disciplinary outlooks in perspective. The considered...journal article 2021
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de Wildt, T.E. (author), van de Poel, I.R. (author), Chappin, E.J.L. (author)We propose a new approach for tracing value change. Value change may lead to a mismatch between current value priorities in society and the values for which technologies were designed in the past, such as energy technologies based on fossil fuels, which were developed when sustainability was not considered a very important value. Better...journal article 2021
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Steen, Marc (author), Sand, M. (author), van de Poel, I.R. (author)Governments and companies are increasingly promoting and organizing Responsible Innovation. It is, however, unclear how the seemingly incompatible demands for responsibility, which is associated with care and caution, can be harmonized with demands for innovation, which is associated with risk-taking and speed. We turn to the tradition of virtue...journal article 2021
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Steen, Marc (author), Timan, Tjerk (author), van de Poel, I.R. (author)The collection and use of personal data on citizens in the design and deployment of algorithms in the domain of justice and security is a sensitive topic. Values like fairness, autonomy, privacy, accuracy, transparency and property are at stake. Negative examples of algorithms that propagate or exacerbate biases, inequalities or injustices have...journal article 2021