Introduction. L’envers des données ou le réel de l’humain
Humans and data. This convergence marks the advent of a strange conflict in culture. It's as if data could exist without human beings and their power to generate it, collect it, and make it into something useful and valuable. Indeed, in our modern civilization of science and technology, we are...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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2024
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| Online Access: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | Humans and data. This convergence marks the advent of a strange conflict in culture. It's as if data could exist without human beings and their power to generate it, collect it, and make it into something useful and valuable. Indeed, in our modern civilization of science and technology, we are now compelled by the idea of an equivalence between human beings and machines, artificial intelligence, and autonomous robotics. Data, it is now said, could offer an exhaustive replication of the human being, and, in the near future, even improve upon it. This harks back to the thought of the mathematician Alan Turing, who suggested that a man who calculates is equivalent to a machine that calculates. In response, however, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein argued that when machines calculate, it is actually men who calculate (Casilli 2019, p. 31). This piece of human wisdom could serve as an apt introduction to the articles contained in this special report, each of which challenges in its own way—drawing on various fields of study, from philosophy to law—the widespread reduction of human beings to data. Breaking with this trend, they all look at data from a human perspective. And what we can ultimately ask ourselves is: Is it even possible to proceed otherwise ? Disciplines: LAW, ETHICS, COMPUTING, PHILOSOPHY |
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