ethics
From ‘Swarm Intelligence’ to ‘Swarm Ethics’ – A New Collective Purpose-Driven Ethics in the Digital Age.

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Katja Rausch
September 23, 2022
Reading Time: 17 minutes The proposed concept of swarm ethics evolves around three pilars : behavior, collectivity and purpose
Away from cognitive jugdmental-based ethics to a new form of collective ethics driven by purpose.
Katja Rausch
March 24, 2022
Reading Time: < 1 minute Emmanuel GOFFI Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Global AI Ethics Institute in Paris
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Daniele Proverbio, PhD
February 9, 2022
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Katja Rausch
January 17, 2022
Reading Time: < 1 minute Aired on March 21st, 2022! The beginning of Spring…
Katja Rausch
December 28, 2021
Reading Time: < 1 minute The featured articles have all been read at least 200 times on our website www.houseofethics.lu, with 435 times for the most-read article. (since our launch in May 2021) THANK YOU for your...
Katja Rausch
December 22, 2021
Reading Time: 6 minutes Holiday and New Year’s Greetings by our Authors, Contributors and Guest Speakers from around the world in Luxembourgish, French, Egyptian, Yoruba, Italian, Turkish, Danish, Dutch, Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, German, Bengali, and Latin. (hover over text for...
Katja Rausch
December 10, 2021
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Katja Rausch
December 6, 2021
Reading Time: 9 minutes Saint Nicholas and the AI MYTH : About the Creation of Myths. December 6, Saint Nicholas Day, is the perfect moment to ponder on the essence, the creation and the “sustainability” of myths. What makes a...
Daniele Proverbio, PhD
November 11, 2021
Reading Time: 5 minutes What if Ethics Does Not Exist? This provocative piece suggests that ethics has no meaning in absolute terms, but it is just a by-product of social activities. It also discusses some plausible practical consequences. What are...
Ahmed Hemedan
July 1, 2021
Reading Time: 12 minutes COVID-19 Vaccine Passports – between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Vaccinations have been rolling out now in many countries. There is a real interest in how we can move out again with some sense...
Claudia Colombani
May 27, 2021
Reading Time: 5 minutes Self-Esteem and Ethics Be yourself, all the other personalities are already taken – Oscar Wilde How to link self-esteem to ethics? To understand how self-esteem can mesh with the notion of ethics, it is important to...
Back to Future #1: Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002) – “Ethics cannot be articulated! Ethics is acted.”

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Back to Future #1: Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002) – “Ethics cannot be articulated! Ethics is acted.”
Katja Rausch
May 26, 2021
Reading Time: 10 minutes HEINZ VON FOERSTER (1911-2002) Austrian-American “Weltmensch” Born in the imperial Vienna in 1911, Heinz von Foerster, was throughout his long life blessed with the legendary Viennese flair and humor. He described himself as a...
Katja Rausch
May 3, 2021
Reading Time: 10 minutes The robots Sophia, Ai-da, Erica and other gynoids Female robots, gynoids, fembots : on a mission to soften the sharp metallic edges University of Oxford, Cambridge 2019. The artist is addressing the crowd while looking at...
Katja Rausch
April 17, 2021
Reading Time: 7 minutes The “uncanny valley” in robotics In 1970, the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori from the Tokyo Institute of Technology coinded the concept of the “uncanny valley”. In robotics, the “uncanny valley” is a hypothesis : “We are...
Katja Rausch
February 27, 2021
Reading Time: 4 minutes Aristotle, father of classical Western ethics Aristote and Happiness Born in 384 BC, in Stagira, a son of a family of doctors, Aristotle was the disciple of Plato. He founded his own school, the Lyceum, with...
Katja Rausch
February 26, 2021
Reading Time: 5 minutes 5 ethical theories for modern times From Aristote to Floridi Obviously, the first of the 5 ethical theories listed in this article is Aristotle’s virtue ethics. He is the founding father of Western ethics and inspired...
Katja Rausch
January 9, 2021
Reading Time: 6 minutes The mission that the author has given himself: the age of confusion that is living between "all-changism" and "nothing-fairism" seeks an answer in ethics. He sees an ethics is everywhere even in the "ethical garbage".
Katja Rausch
February 16, 2020
Reading Time: < 1 minute Pourquoi l'iA a besoin de l'éthique?