What does integrating Emerging Technology with Justice mean? Catholic Social Teaching and Christian Social Practices need to engage.
What does integrating Emerging Technology with Justice mean? Catholic Social Teaching and Christian Social Practices need to engage.
Integrating emerging technology with justice is critical to enhancing justice’s effectiveness. The See-Judge-Act method involves incorporating and using emerging technology practices and tools to bring justice to our world. Catholic Social Teaching and Christian Social Practices need to engage with technology as an enhancement of the critical aspects of living out the gospel in the world we live in, and integrating Emerging Technology with Justice must be about our collective efforts to ensure that new and developing technologies are designed, deployed, and used in ways that promote fairness, equity, and accountability.
This involves several key elements:
Ethics in Technology Development: Promoting the consideration of ethical principles and social impact during the research, design, and deployment of emerging technologies helps mitigate unintended negative consequences. This is a vital consideration when using See-Judge-Act.
Responsible AI and Algorithmic Fairness: This ensures that artificial intelligence systems and algorithms do not perpetuate or amplify societal biases and discrimination. It requires careful testing, transparency, and accountability.
Digital Equity and Inclusion: Ensuring marginalized and underserved communities have equitable access to new technologies and the skills/resources to benefit from them. This helps prevent the digital divide from widening.
Privacy and Civil Liberties Protections: Establishing policies and safeguards to protect individual privacy rights and civil liberties as new data-driven and surveillance technologies emerge.
Community Engagement and Participatory Design: Involve diverse community stakeholders in developing and deploying technologies that will impact them to ensure their needs and perspectives are centered.
Regulatory Frameworks and Governance: Creating laws, regulations, and governance structures to provide oversight and accountability for how emerging technologies are used, especially in sensitive domains like criminal justice, healthcare, and finance.
The goal is to proactively shape the trajectory of technological change to reduce rather than exacerbate societal inequities and injustices. It's about harnessing the power of innovation to build a more fair and equitable future. As Marshall McLuhan said: "The medium is the message.”
When we consider the work we do and our lives and consider the statement, “The medium is the message,” we begin to see the influence emerging technology has on our society and the change occurring.
Look at all those dots in the photo; they are satellites. Data is stored in thousands of data centers across the globe, but the medium, the message, comes via the network of satellites. This is where technology's finger begins to touch humans' minds.
"The Times They Are a-Changin'" See-Judge-Act.
