While the industrial revolution initiated the process of automating production lines, digitalisation and the concomitant appearance of Big Data, Industry 4.0, AI, and so forth will probably complete it. In your book – Das Seerosenprinzip1 – you have described in great detail how individual responsibility is disappearing with the advent of ever-increasing mechanisation. Should we worry that with greater automation via the digital revolution responsibility will vanish completely or perhaps even be handed over to robots?
In her Duet interview with Daniel Goeudevert, the French man of letters, automobile industry manager and business consultant, Dr Caldarola, author of the recent book Big Data and Law, discusses the meaning of responsibility in the digital age.
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