Playing God with Emerging Technologies
How to Avoid the Traps of Techno-Optimism and Techno-Pessimism
Playing God with Emerging Technologies
How to Avoid the Traps of Techno-Optimism and Techno-Pessimism
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Public debates over the morality of new or emerging technologies tend to devolve into false dichotomies of optimism versus pessimism. Playing God with Emerging Technologies: How to Avoid the Traps of Techno-Optimism and Techno-Pessimism provides a conceptual apparatus for engaging in such debates in a critical manner through the constructive lens of “playing God” arguments. Moti Mizrahi sketches a conceptual framework consisting of an argumentation scheme for “playing God” arguments along with Critical Questions. This framework can be used to analyze and evaluate “playing God” arguments as they are made in debates over the ethical development and deployment of new or emerging technologies, such as solar geoengineering, Artificial Intelligence (AI), autonomous vehicles, autonomous weapons, and more.
Mizrahi argues that “playing God” arguments allow us to assume an intermediate, critical attitude between the extremes of hype and panic as well as approach the governance of new or emerging technologies in ways that might help to increase our control over, improve our understanding of, and prevent our misuse or abuse of such technologies.
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Table of Contents
Part I: “Playing God” Arguments in Theory
Chapter 1: The Ethics of New or Emerging Technologies
Chapter 2: “Playing God” Arguments
Chapter 3: An Argumentation Scheme for “Playing God” Arguments
Chapter 4: How to Evaluate “Playing God” Arguments
Part II: “Playing God” Arguments in Practice
Chapter 5: Are We “Playing God” with Geoengineering?
Chapter 6: Are We “Playing God” with Artificial Intelligence?
Chapter 7: Are We “Playing God” with Autonomous Vehicles?
Chapter 8: Are We “Playing God” with Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems?
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| Published | Oct 16 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 180 |
| ISBN | 9781978760974 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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