Luciano Floridi Bücher

Focusing on the intersection of environmental policies and digital solutions, this book presents a compelling argument for enhancing democracy and reforming capitalism in the digital age. Luciano Floridi advocates for responsible practices that promote sustainability and social equity, offering fresh insights and bold strategies for political reform. Through engaging analysis and thought experiments, readers are encouraged to critically examine the future of politics and collaborate for meaningful change, making it a vital read for those interested in the philosophy of technology and modern governance.

The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence develops the theses that AI is an unprecedented divorce between agency and intelligence and, on this basis, that AI as a new form of agency can be harnessed ethically and unethically. Luciano Floridi argues in favour of a marriage between the Green of environmentalism and the Blue of our digital technologies.

Conceived by fine-artist and Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Carson Grubaugh, this deluxe edition collects all five issues of a groundbreaking comic series, the first entirely illustrated by Artificial Intelligence. Through four interwoven experiments, Grubaugh utilized Midjourney AI to reinterpret an essay by C.S. Lewis, envision a satirical dystopian future, illustrate an AI-generated script, and create graphics for an essay by Luciano Floridi, a prominent philosopher and AI ethics advisor. These elements, both humorous and unsettling, offer a chilling glimpse into a future where human passions have lost their significance. This deluxe hardcover edition features exclusive content, including a rare reprint of the Dall-E 2 variant of issue #1, where the entire interior was re-illustrated using Dall-E 2. It also includes two philosophical essays by Grubaugh, written between 2007 and 2018, which inspired the project and predicted the content apocalypse driven by AI. Accompanying the project are long-form discussions on the ethics and impact of AI art with notable guests, available on Living The Line's YouTube channel. This unique project is poised to hold a significant place in the history of comics and art, marking a pivotal moment in the evolution of artistic expression.

Who are we, and how do we relate to each other? Luciano Floridi, a leading contemporary philosopher, explores how developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are reshaping these fundamental questions. As the lines between online and offline life blur, we become interconnected and surrounded by smart objects, integrating into an "infosphere." The personas we adopt on social media increasingly influence our 'real' lives, leading us to live in a state Floridi calls "onlife." This metaphysical shift signifies a fourth revolution, akin to those initiated by Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud. "Onlife" permeates our daily activities—shopping, working, learning, caring for health, entertainment, and relationships, as well as interactions with law, finance, and politics, even warfare. ICTs act as environmental forces that create and transform our realities. To harness their benefits, we must consider the implicit risks: will these technologies empower or constrain us? Floridi argues for an expanded ecological and ethical perspective that encompasses both natural and artificial realities, advocating for an 'e' in environmentalism that effectively addresses the challenges posed by our digital technologies and information society.

Luciano Floridi unpacks this fundamental concept - what information is, how it is measured, its value and meaning - cutting across the sciences and humanities, from DNA to the Internet, and the ethical issues related to privacy, copyright, and accessibility.

Luciano Floridi presents an innovative approach to philosophy, conceived as conceptual design. His starting-point is that reality provides the data which we transform into information. He explores how we make, transform, refine, and improve the objects of our knowledge, and defends the radical idea that knowledge is design.

Luciano Floridi presents a book that will set the agenda for the philosophy of information — the study of the nature of information and the development of information-theoretic and computational methodologies for philosophy. It revitalizes old philosophical questions, poses new problems, and it has already produced a wealth of important results.

Luciano Floridi presents an original ethical framework for addressing the challenges posed by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), which have significantly transformed various aspects of life, including entertainment, work, communication, education, health care, and social relations. These changes have had a profound impact on our moral lives and contemporary ethical discussions, raising pressing issues such as privacy, ownership, freedom of speech, responsibility, and the digital divide. This ethical discourse is encapsulated in Information Ethics (IE), a new philosophical area that examines the ethical implications of ICTs on society. Since the 1970s, IE has been a prominent topic in academic curricula, leading to a surge of university courses, conferences, workshops, and research centers dedicated to the subject. However, most investigations have focused on professional and technical aspects, primarily addressing legal and social issues. This book is the first philosophical monograph solely devoted to IE, establishing its conceptual foundations. Floridi systematically pursues three goals: describing what IE is and its associated problems; providing an introduction to the complex nature of computer ethics; and addressing key theoretical questions regarding the ethical implications of ICTs. While independent of his previous work, this book complements it by further exploring the foundations of the philosophy of

Chi siamo e che tipo di relazioni stabiliamo gli uni con gli altri? Luciano Floridi sostiene che gli sviluppi nel campo delle tecnologie dell'informazione e della comunicazione stiano modificando le risposte a domande così fondamentali. I confini tra la vita online e quella offline tendono a sparire e siamo ormai connessi gli uni con gli altri senza soluzione di continuità, diventando progressivamente parte integrante di un'"infosfera" globale. Questo passaggio epocale rappresenta niente meno che una quarta rivoluzione, dopo quelle di Copernico, Darwin e Freud. L'espressione "onlife" definisce sempre di più le nostre attività quotidiane: come facciamo acquisti, lavoriamo, ci divertiamo, coltiviamo le nostre relazioni. In ogni campo della vita, le tecnologie della comunicazione sono diventate forze che strutturano l'ambiente in cui viviamo, creando e trasformando la realtà. Saremo in grado di raccoglierne i frutti? Quali, invece, i rischi impliciti? Floridi suggerisce che dovremmo sviluppare un approccio in grado di rendere conto sia delle realtà naturali sia di quelle artificiali, in modo da affrontare con successo le sfide poste dalle tecnologie correnti e dalle attuali società dell'informazione.

Jak infosféra mění tvář lidské reality. Vývoj informačních a komunikačních technologií (ICT) radikálně proměňuje nejen to, jak rozumíme světu a jak vzájemně komunikujeme, ale také způsob, jakým se díváme sami na sebe a jak chápeme svou vlastní povahu, existenci a odpovědnost. Rozšíření ICT tak představuje čtvrtou revoluci v dlouhém procesu přehodnocování základní podstaty a role lidstva ve vesmíru: jakožto lidstvo netvoříme nehybný střed vesmíru (kopernikovská revoluce), nelišíme se nijak mimořádně od zbytku zvířecího světa (darwinovská revoluce) a zdaleka nejsme sami pro sebe ve svém vědomí zcela transparentní (freudovská revoluce). ICT nám nyní dávají najevo, že nepředstavujeme izolované, odpojené činitele, ale informační organismy, kteří spolu s jinými druhy těchto činitelů sdílejí globální prostředí, v konečném pohledu utvářené z informací, takzvanou infosféru (Turingova revoluce).