Quote:

From a “resource” perspective, it seems that the moral machine needs information, and quite a lot of it, to function properly. However, even within the limited scope adopted by an analysis based solely on information as a resource, care should be exercised lest all ethical discourse is reduced to the nuances of higher quantity, quality, and intelligibility of informational resources.

What I expect to learn:

To know the foundations of information ethics

Review:                    

It may not be obvious but there are a lot to consider when it comes to information ethics because everyone has a piece of everything. As the chapter mentioned, “The more the better is not the only, nor always the best, rule of thumb, for the (sometimes explicit and conscious) withdrawal of information can often makea significant difference. Amayneed to lack (or preclude herself from accessing) some information in order to achieve morally desirable goals, such as protecting anonymity, enhancing fair treatment, or implementing unbiased evaluation. Famously, Rawls’ “veil of ignorance” exploits precisely this aspect of information-as-a-resource, in order to develop an impartial approach to justice (Rawls, 1999). Being informed is not always a blessing and might even be morally wrong or dangerous.” This is because a human beings is a part of a whole based on Einstein which is called a universe and if that is the case, we need not to be alone in anything that we do and we need not be selfish with our actions every now and then. It is true that no one can achieve such peace and security within oneself when there nothing to follow in the first place because the beauty of appreciating other things is when you start appreciating what you have so why bother look for something or someone else to do things you should have done before? It is because we seek company, inanimate or not, in order for us to distinguish if we truly are doing the right thing or not.

What I learned:

·         Foundations of information ethics

·         Infosphere

·         The External Product Model

·         IE as an ethics of informational resources

·         IE as an ethics of information products

·         IE as an ethics of the informational environment

·         The limits of any microethical approach to information ethics

·         Internal Resource Product Target Model

·         Information Ethics as a macroethics

·         Moral agents

·         The responsibilities of human agents

·         Four moral principles

·         Two recurrent objections against IE

·         Applicability of IE

Integrative Questions:            

1.    Does it make sense to talk to agents?

2.    Is IE truly applicable?

3.    Explain the concept of having an information ethics.

4.    What are the responsibilities of human agents?

5.    What is the limit of a macroethical approach?