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Human Action in the Loop: Ethical Considerations and Standardization

Human Action in the Loop: Ethical Considerations and Standardization
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Author(s): Hartwig Steusloff (FhG IOSB, DKE, Germany)and Michael Decker (KIT-ITAS, Germany)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 17
Source title: Effective Standardization Management in Corporate Settings
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Kai Jakobs (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9737-9.ch016

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Abstract

Extremely complex systems like the smart grid or autonomous cars need to meet society's high expectations regarding their safe operation. The human designer and operator becomes a “system component” as soon as responsible decision making is needed. Tacit knowledge and other human properties are of crucial relevance for situation-dependent decisions. The uniform modeling of technical systems and humans will benefit from ethical reflection. In this chapter, we describe human action with technical means and ask, on the one hand, for a comprehensive multidisciplinary technology assessment in order to produce supporting knowledge and methods for technical and societal decision making. On the other hand—and here is the focus—we propose a system life cycle approach which integrates the human in the loop and argue that it can be worthwhile to describe humans in a technical way in order to implement human decision making by means of the use case method. Ethical reflection and even ethically based technical decision making can support the effective control of convergent technology systems.

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