Ethics in a Connected World: Gerd Leonhard at TEDxBrussels

🌐 Technology lacks ethics in the connected world.

🚀 The accelerating trends in technology will heavily rely on ethics.

🗺️ Ethics and principles serve as a roadmap for our decisions in the future.

🔮 Future technologies like nanobots in bloodstream and internet on iris raise ethical questions.

🔑 Privacy versus security is a crucial discussion in the digital world.

💻 Powerful technologies like algorithms and social media platforms have ethical implications.

🔍 Technology is progressing at a fast pace, surpassing the scope of our ethics.

🌍 As more countries come online, ethical issues and a moral compass become crucial.

🤖 The potential for technology is limitless, but it raises questions about human augmentation and the loss of inefficiency.

🤖 The future of humans in a connected world raises questions about the impact of technology and artificial intelligence.

💭 Intelligent personal assistants like Siri and Cortana record and store our interactions in the cloud, blurring the line between human and machine.

🏠 The emergence of robots like Gbow as family social partners raises concerns about the blurring of boundaries between humans and machines.

🧠 The integration of artificial intelligence into our lives and our integration into technology suggests a future where humans live inside machines and machines become a part of us.

⚠️ Ethical considerations surrounding artificial intelligence and technology should be examined to ensure responsible development.

⚔️ The increasing reliance on data, AI, and cloud computing in defense budgets raises ethical questions.

🤖 The pursuit of becoming superhuman through cyborg transhumanism raises ethical concerns about the limits of augmentation.

💡 The exponential growth enabled by technology raises ethical questions about work-life balance and the limits of abundance.

⚖️ The speaker discusses the concept of digital ethics and raises important questions about the potential consequences of an omnipresent, software-driven world.

🌐 The video explores the idea of hyper-dependency on the internet and how this could lead to a digital feudalism where we become creations of our own creation.

❓ The speaker emphasizes the need to consider the ethical implications of technology and to question why, who, how, and when we adopt certain advancements to avoid becoming mere extensions of operating systems.

⚖️ The discussion is about finding a balance between humanism and technology.

🔄 The convergence of exponential growth and human potential is creating a new ethical framework.

🤖 Humans should not become subservient to artificial intelligence.