(De Gruyter Textbook)
by Sarah Spiekermann (Author)
This book shows how the grand aspiration of creating a Technology for Humanity can be practically achieved. Value-based Engineering shows how to embed value dispositions into technology design, guiding the reader in a clear and concise way from the exploration of value principles to system requirements. In so doing, it supports the creation of a value-based business mission, seeking to foster organizational purpose and human wellbeing with a given technology.
In times of powerful AI systems, such as GPT, Value-based Engineering is deeply needed. It is a new transdisciplinary IT innovation- and engineering approach respecting human values and societal consequences of IT systems as these are planned and in early evolution stages. The book tells the story of why we need technology for humanity more than ever before and what principles we should follow in building it. More concretely, it is a guide on how exactly companies should pursue their innovation efforts with an epilogue on how this is different from aspiring science fiction. The Value-based Engineering approach outlined in this book with concrete case-studies, forms and over 90 illustrations was developed and revised by over 100 experts from around the world engaged in a project called IEEE P7000TM". IEEE P7000 led to the ISO/IEEE 24748 -7000 standard published in late 2022 containing the first model process for addressing ethical concerns during system design. This book’s content embraces the latest insights from IT system design, AI control, design thinking, value theory, ethics and IT innovation. It is easily accessible and readable by a wide audience of academics and practitioners from multiple academic background who teach, work or study in the field of IT innovation and who are specifically interested in the social and human construction and management of technology.
