Everyday life, and the world, has transformed with the effortless, costless, and seamless extra layer of digital data and AI. This talk explores the ethical implications of the processes of the digitization of a changing world offering both a historical account and an analysis that may guide governance practices and global collaboration with a human-centric approach to AI and big data. Shedding light on the constant tensions that exist between ethical principles and the interests invested in this socio-technical transformation, the talk provides a humanist philosophical foundation for revising and developing future policies.

Biography – Gry Hasselbalch