CET is a response to challenges associated with the digital technology development. Artificial Intelligence, robotisation or Internet of Things are not only opportunities but also threats to various areas of social, economic and political life. - We cannot stay indifferent to these changes, as we are their inseparable part - adds dr Dominika Kaczorowska-Spychalska.
This is why founders of CET want a large group of stakeholders to be engaged in designing technologies. This is about preventing such phenomena as digital exclusion, discrimination, surveillance, disinformation and supporting activities providing a guarantee that technologies will function for the benefit of people and the world. The founders of the Centre also want the Centre to become a hub of critical debate on the desired direction of innovation development in Poland and outside it. They believe that thanks to this also Polish companies will get a chance to become internationally competitive. They also want to have influence on the shape of legislation pertaining to technology.
CET provides space for intersectoral discussion and will promote international recommendations regarding the ethics of technology. Moreover, it is going to disseminate methodologies allowing for designing technologies in line with values, participate in the development of contemporary reflection on the ethics of technology.
The Programme Council of CET consists of over a dozen of experts from the world of science, business, government administration and non-government institutions. Among them there are, inter alia: ethicists, economists, IT specialists and lawyers. The voice of the disabled was also not forgotten about. Their contribution to developing and implementing human-friendly innovations is of considerable importance to their efficiency.
- Technology is neither good nor bad. We give it an ethical tag depending on the purposes for which we use it. That is why it is necessary not only to compete, but also to cooperate for higher values - says Zofia Dzik, founder and president of the Humanites Institute (humanites.pl), at which CET was founded, as well as the chairman of the Center's Programme Council.
- Our decisions will shape the world inhabited by future generations - adds dr Dominika Kaczorowska-Spychalska - And this requires awareness and responsibility on our side.
Source: Faculty of Management, UL
Edit: Promotion Centre, UL