Digital Humanism

Julian Nida-Rümelin is one of the most well-known philosophers in Germany and Europe and an important opinion leader in Germany who has published inside and outside of academia. He was State Minister for Culture in the socialist-green national government of Gerhard Schröder in 2001/2002. In 2017 the Bavarian Government awarded him with the Medal of the Bavarian State for special merits on the Bavarian economy and in 2019 he received the Bavarian Distinguished Service Award. Since 2020 he has been part of the German Ethics Council.Nathalie Weidenfeld is a well-known author and acted as co-writer in this project. She published inside and outside academia and taught film at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. She is part of the Bavarian Ethics Commission.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Robots as New (Digital) Slaves.- 3. Digital Simulations of Emotions.- 4. The Problem of Autonomy and Determination in the Digital World.- 5. The World as the Perfect Machine Universe.- 6. Digital Optimization, Utilitarianism and AI.- 7. Economic Rationality as a Software Program.- 8. Why Robots Don't Have Moral Judgment.- 9. Ethical Non-Comparability.- 10. Why AIs Fail at Moral Dilemmas.- 11. Why AIs Can't Think.- 12. Digital Virtualities and Sober Realities.- 13. On the Ethics of Internet Communication.- 14. On the Ethics of Communication between Humans and AI.- 15. Cultural Aspects of Digitalisation.- 16. Digital Education.- 17. Utopia of Liquid Democracy.- 18. Socio-Economic Aspects of Digitisation.- 19. Transhumanist Temptations.- 20. On the Metaphysics of digitalisation.- 21. Afterword.