Suchergebnisse
"Cordula Kropp"
Titel: Automation, Co-Agency, and Distributed Responsibility: Caring for Hybrid Therapeutic Networks
Autor: Cordula Kropp and Tobias Renner
Seite: 49-70
Drawing on insights from sociology and science and technology studies, we develop an account of agency as an emergent and relational property constituted within hybrid configurations of humans and machines. We speak of co-agency to capture the ways in which responsible action is jointly produced within human-machine entanglements, with both parties demonstrating purposively intended as well as determined forms of action. By emphasizing the interdependence of sociotechnical systems, therapeutic practices, and institutional automation infrastructures, we argue that responsibility cannot be attributed to discrete actors – whether human or digital – but must instead be understood as generated within the relational processes through which co-agency emerges. This reconceptualization shifts attention from locating isolated bearers of responsibility to examining the socio-technical arrangements that structure action, thereby suggesting recommendations for ethical guidelines aimed at supporting responsible automation in healthcare.
Focus: Responsibility and Artificial Intelligence
2026 (48) Heft 1
Editorial
As is evident everywhere, research into artificial intelligence has advanced by leaps and bounds in recent years, leading to a rapid increase in its use across almost all areas of life. As early as 2018, the German government of the time set out a ‘Master Plan for Artificial Intelligence’ in its coalition agreement, and the current government plans, as announced in a recently published strategy paper, to quadruple Germany’s AI capacity by 2030. Artificial intelligence is regarded as a key ...