Sense-Making and Collective Virtues among "Artificial Intelligence" Innovators

This call for papers intends to contribute to two main lines of research, starting from connecting them. The first is the one emphasising the links between hermeneutics and ethics in the context of technological development, regardless of whether this goes by the name of “moral hermeneutics”, “hermeneutic ethics of technology”, or “digital hermeneutics”. What these approaches often overlook, however, is the perspective of a developing technology (such as artificial intelligence), where these concepts influence the work, cohesion, and direction of the team producing it, as well as the ethical choices of its members. At the same time, this line of research is related to the recent studies on collective virtues. Beyond the meaning of ‘collective virtue’ in general terms, other studies have focused on specific virtues that can be cultivated by a collective. In these collectives, a focus on the relationships among the ‘narratives’ with which different members make (moral) sense of their ‘practices’ can open up new perspectives in this direction, also with reference to specific goals.