Emotions and Automation in a High-Tech Workplace: a Commentary

Umbrello, S.

doi:10.1007/s13347-023-00615-w

Emotions and Automation in a High-Tech Workplace

Title

Emotions and Automation in a High-Tech Workplace: a Commentary

Author

Umbrello, S. (TU Delft Ethics & Philosophy of Technology)

Date

2023

Abstract

In a recent article, Madelaine Ley evaluates the future of work, specifically robotised workplaces, via the lens of care ethics. Like many proponents of care ethics, Ley draws on the approach and its emphasis on relationality to understand ethical action necessary for worker wellbeing. Her paper aims to fill a research gap by shifting away from the traditional contexts in which care ethics is employed, i.e., health and care contexts and instead appropriates the approach to tackle the sociotechnicity of robotics and how caring should be integrated into non-traditional contexts. This paper comments on that of Ley’s, making the case that the author does, in fact, achieve this end while still leaving areas of potential future research open to buttressing the approach she presents.

Subject

Applied ethics
Automation
Capabilities approach
Work

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-023-00615-w

ISSN

2210-5433

Source

Philosophy & Technology, 36 (1)

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