{ "docId": "019dd923-5e88-73ef-bd59-dddef82be3b0", "docSlug": "b5722f8c12c21bf3", "documentTitle": "The importance of being human in a digital world", "authorId": "Deloitte", "authorName": "Cambridge University Press", "documentKindSlug": "consulting-deck", "documentKindLabel": "Consulting deck", "sourceTypeSlug": "strategy_consulting", "sourceTypeLabel": "Strategy consulting", "presentationDate": null, "orientation": "portrait", "aspectRatio": 0.667, "pageNumber": 16, "pageCount": 224, "prevPage": 15, "nextPage": 17, "slideType": "other", "function": "establish_context", "density": "dense", "nDataPoints": 0, "notes": "This appears to be page 2 of an academic book introduction. It contains a footnote.", "elementsJson": [ "paragraph", "footnote" ], "metadataConfidence": 0.9, "imagePath": null, "slideHref": "/slides/019dd923-5e88-73ef-bd59-dddef82be3b0/16", "deckHref": "/decks/019dd923-5e88-73ef-bd59-dddef82be3b0", "deckJsonHref": "/decks/019dd923-5e88-73ef-bd59-dddef82be3b0.json", "deckAnchorHref": "/decks/019dd923-5e88-73ef-bd59-dddef82be3b0#slide-16", "components": [ { "bbox": null, "kind": "callout", "text": "The mode in which the questions about human nature are asked, about the finitude of the human being, about its vulnerability, about its ability to speak, and about its self-consciousness, has changed under the massive influence of recent technologies, notably AI.", "attrs": null, "subkind": null, "toolName": "Visual emphasis", "toolSlug": "visual-emphasis", "confidence": null, "componentId": "019dd952-1044-75f9-bcfd-812e6f30a54e", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.07, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.89 }, "kind": "disclaimer", "text": "This complete digitization of everyday life, the engineering of humans and the aim of perfect machine readability of everything we do (Frischmann and Selinger 2018; Selinger and Frischmann 2015; Stivers and DeHart-Davis 2022; see also Chapter 6) can also be read in the tradition of the Weberian theory of modernization as bureaucratization and therefore dehumanization of social relationships and society as a whole (see Slope 2022; on Weber, e.g. Brühlmeier 2024).", "attrs": null, "subkind": null, "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "7915b3d2-648c-47cc-8502-c72994159b5a", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.15, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.73 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "In order to frame and delimit our conversations, we would first like to clarify how we will and will not engage with certain conceptual and normative approaches. Our goal in this introduction is accordingly to better situate ourselves in the current debates about the technological influence on and interaction with human beings. In the background – and sometimes in the foreground – of our discussions about the digital human are two theoretical trends that have attracted a great deal of attention over the last decades and have led to (at least) two central philosophical debates: posthumanism and transhumanism. We are briefly going to sketch each one in turn.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "21ff54d9-a458-4975-80a8-25bbdbeeedef", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.25, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.09 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "intelligence are so efficient that one actually has to speak of a historical upheaval. The mode in which the questions about human nature are asked, about the finitude of the human being, about its vulnerability, about its ability to speak, and about its self-consciousness, has changed under the massive influence of recent technologies, notably AI. The change is manifest in all areas of life which have been digitized – language, communication in general, friendships and relationships in general, work, democracy. But the upheaval is maybe especially palpable in the economy: with digital or surveillance capitalism the market economy has taken on new forms thanks to categorically new technologies and the concentration of digital companies in the five or six biggest players (see Jasanoff 2016; Zuboff 2019). Since the digitized market has taken over all areas of human life, it has seemingly taken over what it means to be human as well.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "52da18e5-a2f7-4709-b46b-e5b77b4ff221", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.18, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.54 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "To begin to address these questions, we gathered a group of leading scholars to reflect on how we – as individuals and as a society – change as digital technologies rewrite the fundamental conditions of our collective life and of our individual experiences of being human. We also asked these scholars to reflect on the kinds of vocabularies or conceptual frameworks that will give us the language we need to grapple with, understand and resist these conditions. We believe that this is an important conversation to initiate because how we as a society answer these questions will be among the defining issues of the coming years and decades.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "e1baa9c5-b6a4-4201-b553-1438abdb2388", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.18, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.35 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "All these questions, against the background of the transformation of social life, will be addressed in our collection. On the one hand, we seek to explore fundamental issues, such as the extent to which the concept and idea of human beings (has to) change given the new socio-technical reality we are creating. On the other hand, we are also interested in more specific questions such as: What kinds of humans are expected to inhabit these new spaces? Will the machine learning that drives these spaces necessarily make us more predictable? 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