VORTRAG: Information Justice – An Ethical Framework for the Information Age

Many of the most pressing ethical issues facing us today concern the flow of information—e.g., freedom of speech, disinformation and misinformation, privacy, bias, attentional control, and intellectual property. Social media and AI are widening the gap between our conceptual resources and these ethical issues. The Theory of Information Justice provides a unified framework for bridging this gap. It combines insights from social epistemology, social justice, and information ethics. Information justice is a multifaceted concept, reflecting three ways persons may be related to information—as seekers, as sources, and as subjects. What justice requires for each of these roles is illuminated by connecting them to three aspects of social justice—distributive, representational, and recognitional. In this talk, I present this framework and show how it applies to concerns about the use of machine learning to make predictions about human beings.

Kay Mathiesen is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Northeastern University with a research focus on information and computer ethics and justice

Hybrid-Vortrag
03. Juni 2025, 16:15 – 17:45h
Ort: Online/Seminarraum EGM, Humboldtalle 36; um Anmeldung bis zum 30.05. unter jan.hinrichsen@med.uni-goettingen.de wird gebeten.