TY - JOUR AU - Floridi, Luciano AB - Philosophy & Technology (2019) 32:185–193 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-019-00354-x EDITOR LETTER Translating Principles into Practices of Digital Ethics: Five Risks of Being Unethical 1,2 Luciano Floridi Published online: 23 May 2019 Springer Nature B.V. 2019 1 Introduction It has taken a very long time, but today, the debate on the ethical impact and implications of digital technologies has reached the front pages of newspapers. This is understandable: digital technologies—from web-based services to Artificial Intelli- gence (AI) solutions—increasingly affect the daily lives of billions of people, so there are many hopes but also concerns about their design, development, and deployment (Cath et al. 2018). After more than half a century of academic research, the recent public reaction has been a flourishing of initiatives to establish what principles, guidelines, codes, or frameworks can ethically guide digital innovation, particularly in AI, to benefit hu- manity and the whole environment. This is a positive development that shows aware- ness of the importance of the topic and interest in tackling it systematically. Yet, it is time that debate evolves from the what to the how: not just what ethics is needed but also how ethics can be effectively and successfully applied and implemented in order to make TI - Translating Principles into Practices of Digital Ethics: Five Risks of Being Unethical JF - Philosophy & Technology DO - 10.1007/s13347-019-00354-x DA - 2019-05-23 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/translating-principles-into-practices-of-digital-ethics-five-risks-of-48sEJxvezu SP - 185 EP - 193 VL - 32 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -