Computer Ethics Across Disciplines - Deborah G. Johnson and Algorithmic Accountability

This edited volume brings together philosophers and scholars in disparate fields who have engaged in Professor Deborah G. Johnson's body of work throughout her long career.  It appeals to both students and researchers and introduces Johnson's thought to a broader audience.  This text shows how with due to the resurgence of AI research, her work is more relevant than ever.  The volume will help a new generation of scholars benefit from the conceptual insights that Johnson has provided.  Her work on algorithmic accountability sets the tone in particular. Chapters illustrate how combining philosophy of technology across disciplines helps clarify the complex intricacies of AI and societies, in particular the topic of accountability. Other themes covered include moral agency and responsibility, transparency, gender and technology as well as ethics education.

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Constituting Algorithmic Accountability.- 3. Algorithmic Accountability Gets the Deborah Johnson Treatment.- 4.Johnson s Algorithmic Accountability and Corporate Accountability Dissonance.- 5.Opening the Black Box of AI, Only to Be Disappointed.- 6.The Governance of AI Technologies.- 7.The Nature of Algorithms and their Relation to Accountability.- 8. Prospective Algorithmic Accountability and the Role of the News Media.- 9. Understanding Sociotechnical Systems.

Product details

• Assisted by: Merel Noorman (Editor), Verdicchio (Editor), Mario Verdicchio (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.08.2025
• EAN: 9783031879739
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3187973-9
• No. of pages: 165
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 13 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 379 g
• Illustrations: IX, 165 p. 8 illus.
• Series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous; Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein, Technologie, allgemein, Philosophy of Technology, Computers and Society, Science and Technology Studies, Engineering Ethics, Applied Philosophy and Technology, Algorithmic accountability and philosophy, artificial intelligence and philosophy, Computer and engineering ethics, Deborah G. Johnson