
Value-based engineering vs the Silicon Valley Zeitgeist
A European digital public sphere has to be engineered—but that doesn’t mean pursuing an AI dystopia or creating a European Facebook.
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Sarah Spiekermann is chair of the Institute for Information Systems and Society at Vienna University of Economics and Business. Her latest book is Digital Ethics: A Value System for the 21st Century (Droemer). From 2016 to 2021 she was vice-chair of the IEEE 7000 Standard, the first global model for ethical IT system design.

A European digital public sphere has to be engineered—but that doesn’t mean pursuing an AI dystopia or creating a European Facebook.