Unintended Side Effects of the Digital Transition: European Scientists’ Messages from a Proposition-Based Expert Round Table

• Published in: Sustainability Vol. 10; no. 6; p. 2001
• Main Authors: Scholz, Roland W., Bartelsman, Eric J., Diefenbach, Sarah, Franke, Lude, Grunwald, Arnim, Helbing, Dirk, Hill, Richard, Hilty, Lorenz, Höjer, Mattias, Klauser, Stefan, Montag, Christian, Parycek, Peter, Prote, Jan Philipp, Renn, Ortwin, Reichel, André, Schuh, Günther, Steiner, Gerald, Viale Pereira, Gabriela
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 13.06.2018
• Subjects: artificial intelligence; capital; capitalism; cognition; Content analysis; Cybercrime; decision making; Democracy; digital curtain; digital database; digital transformation; digital vaulting; Digitization; economic valuation; experts; Geoengineering; guidelines; humans; industry; International conferences; Internet; labor; natural resources; Network security; Pornography & obscenity; Privacy; proposition-based expert round tables; Ransomware; scientists; stakeholders; supply chain; Sustainability; Traveling salesman problem; unintended side effects (unseens)

We present the main messages of a European Expert Round Table (ERT) on the unintended side effects (unseens) of the digital transition. Seventeen experts provided 42 propositions from ten different perspectives as input for the ERT. A full-day ERT deliberated communalities and relationships among th...