Human and ethical risks of digitalization

Svetlana A. Bezklubaya - Prethodno priopćenje

Ljudski i etički rizici digitalizacije

Abstract
Digitalization as a direct expression of global information business is the reason for modern civilization’s transformation. The total commercialization of information technologies’ super-productivity turns humans into progress »costs«, devaluing their creative power, morality and ethics. Therefore, the object of this study is to be a person in the face of growing ethical risks caused by ever-accelerating digitization and information processes. The purpose of the work is to identify the problems of ethics and ethical risks as specific and most significant for the digital society. It also shows the main approaches to their solution. An analysis of a person’s consumer attitude to technical achievements reveals the reasons for spirituality destruction as the basis of human integrity. This is due to changes in communication forms – language, art, education, and religion. Digitalization as open information makes it possible to specify ethical risks as a reflection of a human’s life situation. Values and meanings play a crucial role. Digitalization’s ethical risks are identified: privacy, inclusiveness, security, trust, and fairness. The main approach to preventing digitalization ethical risks is the establishment of a techno-humanitarian balance or the development of adequate cultural regulators (human-centricity, overcoming digital inequality) that oppose the growth of destructive power of new technologies in relation to universal human values and humaneness. The methodological basis of the study was the philosophical discourse of consequentialism. This determines the main condition for technology development to find a balance between risk and benefit and cultural and philosophical reflection. The theoretical conclusions contained in this work open up new opportunities for science to concretize practical approaches to solving moral problems and ethical risks in human existence. This is in the era of digital culture transformation.

Sažetak
Potpuna komercijalizacija superproduktivnosti informacijskih tehnologija pretvara čovjeka u »trošak« napretka, obezvrjeđuje kreativnu snagu njegova duha, morala i etike. Stoga je predmet ovog istraživanja čovjek suočen sa sve većim etičkim rizicima uzrokovanim sve bržim procesima informatizacije i digitalizacije. Svrha rada je identificirati probleme etike i etičke rizike kao specifične i najznačajnije za digitalno društvo, pokazati glavne pristupe njihovom rješavanju. Identificirani su temeljni etički rizici digitalizacije: privatnost, inkluzivnost, sigurnost, povjerenje, pravda. Glavni pristup sprječavanju etičkih rizika digitalizacije je uspostava tehno-humanitarne ravnoteže ili razvoj odgovarajućih kulturnih regulatora (usredotočenost na čovjeka, prevladavanje digitalne nejednakosti) koji se suprotstavljaju rastu destruktivne moći novih tehnologija u odnosu na univerzalnu: ljudske vrijednosti i ljudskost. Metodološka osnova istraživanja bila je: etički diskurs konsekvencijalizma koji određuje glavni uvjet razvoja tehnologija za pronalaženje ravnoteže između rizika i koristi; kao i kulturno i filozofsko promišljanje. Teorijski zaključci sadržani u radu otvaraju nove mogućnosti znanosti da konkretizira praktične pristupe rješavanju etičkih problema i etičkih rizika ljudskog postojanja u eri digitalne transformacije kulture.