Buongiorno, grazie mille per questo bellissimo articolo. "J.C. DE MARTIN" <demartin@polito.it> writes:
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-and-the-folly-of-self-regulation/
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- [...] In an op-ed in The New York Times, the board’s new leadership declared: “The oversight board will focus on the most challenging content issues for Facebook, including in areas such as hate speech, harassment, and protecting people’s safety and privacy. It will make final and binding decisions on whether specific content should be allowed or removed from Facebook and Instagram (which Facebook owns).” [...] --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- «Xe pèso el tacòn del buso», dicono alcuni veneti. Ethics Washing, non ci sono altre definizioni possibili per operazioni come questa. Questo modo di _abusare_ dell'etica mi fa, perdonate il francesismo, particolarmente _incazzare_ perché è usato da (alcuni di?) quelli che contrastano il fenomeno per promuovere il ben peggiore "Ethics Bashing". So che Nexa ha uno specifico progetto «Data and Algorithm Ethics» (https://nexa.polito.it/data-and-algorithm-ethics) e sono molto curioso di leggere le pubblicazioni che ne scaturiranno. Elettra Bietti, nel paper sotto riportato, propone di uscire da questo fuorviante modo di ragionare - la «weaponization of “ethics” rhetoric» - e trattare le questioni etiche in modo meno _compartimentato_. «From Ethics Washing to Ethics Bashing. A View on Tech Ethics from Within Moral Philosophy» https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3351095.3372860 --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- [...] "ethics bashing." This consists in the trivialization of ethics and moral philosophy now understood as discrete tools or pre-formed social structures such as ethics boards, self-governance schemes or stakeholder groups. The misunderstandings underlying ethics bashing are at least threefold: (a) philosophy and "ethics" are seen as a communications strategy and as a form of instrumentalized cover-up or façade for unethical behavior, (b) philosophy is understood in opposition and as alternative to political representation and social organizing and (c) the role and importance of moral philosophy is downplayed and portrayed as mere "ivory tower" intellectualization of complex problems that need to be dealt with in practice. This paper argues that the rhetoric of ethics and morality should not be reductively instrumentalized, either by the industry in the form of "ethics washing," or by scholars and policy-makers in the form of "ethics bashing." [...] --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Il paper completo in PDF è qui: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3351095.3372860); è impegnativo ma per me è stato uno studio molto gratificante e formativo. Vi saluto con citazione di una frase che _adoro_, estratta e adattata dal paper: «be aware of vulnerabilities but also combat them by embedding resistance to the exploitation and instrumentalization» Per me vale anche per la tecnologia :-) Saluti, Giovanni. -- Giovanni Biscuolo