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There'S a relatively new sub branch of moral philosophy.
For obvious reasons, digital ethics didn't exist in Aristotle's day.
In fact, the term digital ethics didn't even exist when philosophy bytes launched in 2007.
Digital ethics covers ethical issues to do with the ever increasing role being played by data, AI and the Internet.
And it's what Carissa Valise researches at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI.
Carissa Velez, welcome to philosophy Bites.
Thank you for having me, Nigel.
The topic we're going to focus on today is digital ethics.
Is there something special about digital ethics?
And we have medical ethics, practical ethics, ethics of biology.
There's an ethics of everything.
What's special about digital ethics?
On the one hand, it's not very different from other kinds of ethics.
You have some of the basic kind of questions, like what ought we do?
What kind of life do we want to lead?