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Digital systems rely on known data, algorithms, and predefined parameters, are often precise in their calculations. As a consequence, the digital-first paradigm is approaching fast. However, this paper highlights the unknowabilities emerging from the interplay between digital technologies and human agents. By introducing the concept of symbiotic unknowability through an imaginary narrative featuring a future Digital Oracle, it critiques the current digitalization trajectory reliant on known data. The paper argues for acknowledging the limitations of digital systems to deal with the unknown and complex realities. It emphasizes the necessity of balancing reliance on data and human judgment by highlighting the interaction between human judgment and digital algorithms introducing unique unknowabilities, that neither can foresee independently. This highlights the importance of recognizing and addressing these emergent unknowns in the evolving digital landscape.

The design of more humane and inclusive automated futures is a wicked design problem. Design disciplines have long addressed wicked problems as socially constructed problems and this chapter explores the critical use of reflective game-playing and generative game-making as a thirdspace approach to produce more socially informed solutions for automated futures. Two cases describing critical tabletop gamemaking for exploring future-oriented ethical issues from two projects are presented: the first case details the design process of a card game created to enable mobility companies to explore how they conceptualise and frame their role as technology innovators in relation to environmental sustainability; the second case details the design process and prototyping of a card game meant to explore privacy issues and the consequences of data sharing behaviours on the internet. Engaging in a co-creative, structured, and reflective process of group prototyping through game-making generates two distinct important learning outcomes that help unravel complex, wicked problems. On one hand, the game-makers directly work to unpack, formalise, and produce an experience that simulates a specific wicked problem, increasing their own awareness and understanding of it. On the other hand, the process produces a concrete artifact in the form of a game that can be later played by unrelated parties ensuring that longer-term knowledge generation can happen. © 2024 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.

In this paper, we report on a panel discussion at the 2023 European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2023) held in Kristiansand, Norway. This panel discussed what role human flourishing plays in information systems (IS) research and what information systems researchers can do to promote it in increasingly digitalized societies. We believe that we, as IS researchers, are able to develop new and valuable insights regarding the challenges and opportunities of digital technologies and how this can be ameliorated into hope for a world where humans can live well. Hence, the panelists discussed and debated their perspectives on human flourishing and how information systems (IS) researchers can take the lead as well as become more sensitive to the ways we study human flourishing in the world. We use their rich discussion to develop four pathways for exploring the impact of digital technologies on human flourishing and offer an agenda for future research.

This conceptual paper aims to explore judgment in the context of automated decision-making systems (ADS). To achieve this, we adopt a modern version of Aristotle’s notion of phronesis to understand judgment. We delineate seven elements of judgment which provide insights into what humans are better at, and what AI is better at in relation to automated decision-making. These elements are sources of knowledge that guide action including not-knowing, emotions, sensory perception, experience, intuition, episteme, and techne. Our analysis suggests that most of these attributes are not transferable to AI systems, because judgment in human decision-making requires the integration of all which involves considering the contextual and affective resources of phronesis, and the competence to make value judgments. The paper contributes to unpack human judgment capacities and what needs to be cultivated to achieve ‘good’ AI systems that serves humanity as well as guiding future information systems researchers to explore human-AI judgment further.

Experiential learning through games is becoming increasingly relevant as games exert an enormous influence on the imaginarium of newer generations. This paper details the use of a game-based learning process focusing on game-making in relation to ethical issues of digitalization for graduate education in digital service innovation. Within the context of a masters education, students from diverse knowledge backgrounds learned about and reflected upon ethical issues related to social media usage by playing, remixing and designing games using the Design Games Framework. This paper illustrates that game-making can enable non-designer students to work with ethical issues. There are good possibilities to explore ethics through designing tabletop games, and having diverse groups of participants can be advantageous. Using a qualitative approach based on observation and interviews, the paper contributes to the body of literature focusing on experiential learning through game-based approaches and to the consolidation of the Design Games Framework.

Using big data in organizations has the potential to improve innovation, accuracy, and efficiency. Big data is also connected with risks for both the organization and society at large. It is therefore vital to improve our understanding of the potential consequences of implementing and using big data. The researchers studied the Swedish Transport Administration to understand their attitude towards implementing big data to predict, for example, the need for road maintenance. The analysis identified four moral dilemmas that the organization deals with in connection to big data. The researchers discuss these dilemmas from the perspective of practical wisdom. Practical wisdom is manifested in context-dependent actions connected to open-mindedness, reflection and judgment. It can be summed up as “the reasonable thing to do” in a unique situation where “not-knowing” is a helpful resource when making wise decisions. This paper seeks to shed light on the importance of practical wisdom when implementing big data. Copyright © 2022, IGI Global.

This paper sets out to present an ongoing pedagogical project where game design is used to let students both learn and reflect upon different perspectives of ethics relevant to the master program they are enrolled in. The paper explains the underlying logic behind the pedagogical process where students develop their own game and at the same time learn about different perspectives of ethics in relation to courses that they are currently taking. With an open and iterative method, we let the students explore, discuss and design a game that can be used by future students. By letting the students decide and lead the development we democratize the learning-process and engage them in a learning experience. More so, this approach to game design as a pedagogical tool to engage and democratize the learning experience is new and increasingly relevant for both students that play games on an everyday basis, but also students that are new to games. Also, it is a constant and dynamic process for both students and teachers. © 2022, ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.

This paper uses the pre-renaissance philosopher Nicolas Cusanus (1401-1464) and his concepts of ratio (calculating rationality) and intellectus (a relation to not-knowing) to assist in understanding the differences between human and artificial intelligence. The intention is to contribute to the ongoing discussions and debate pertaining to AI implementation and use, arguing that philosophy can be of ample use when it comes to understanding different types of intelligence in the digital world. The presented conceptual framework outlines the human and the artificial intelligence in terms of their characteristics in relation to Cusa’s ratio and intellectus. This helps to apprehend the different forms of intelligence and, more specifically, their strengths and how they operate.