The goal of EXOSOUL is to equip humans with an automatically generated exoskeleton, a software shield that protects them and their personal data via the mediation of all interactions with the digital world that would result in unacceptable or morally wrong behaviors according to their ethical and privacy preferences.
The exoskeleton can take a whole spectrum of forms: from customized soft-libraries that the individual may deploy on the machines being used, to a sophisticated software interface that an individual may “wear”, eventually deployed on a body chip. Empowering the users with a personalized exoskeleton will introduce more symmetry of power in the present digital world and will effectively put humans in the center.
Exoskeletons development also opens unprecedented business opportunities in the same way open source software did, which promoted the ethical principles of free software against the monopoly proprietary software producers. The European Union (EU) with its companies can become the scientific and technological leader of the future user-driven privacy and ethics systems. Furthermore, bringing back to the user part of the (digital) control helps to solve liability issues in autonomous systems by readdressing responsibility to users according to their specified ethics.
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