Documentary

Tamar Sharon

in The Digital Dilemma

Character
Tamar Sharon

Director
Stephane Kaas

Country
Netherlands

Duration
18 min

Year
2025

From homework to grocery shopping and from healthcare to farm life – the human experience is changed drastically by the seemingly unstoppable onset of data, algorithms and AI.

But is this an improvement? Ethicist Tamar Sharon researches how digitalisation changes our lives and how Big Tech embeds itself into ever more aspects of the public domain. Do we profit from this development, or does it primarily pad the pockets of Silicon Valley giants? Sharon advocates for regulation as well as a shift in thinking so that technology once again serves the public interest.

About Tamar Sharon

Tamar Sharon (born 1975) critically examines the ever-growing digitalization of our societies. As co-director of the Interdisciplinary Hub for Digitalization and Society at Radboud University, she works with researchers from the humanities, the social sciences and computer sciences, exploring how digital technologies can align with public values, including privacy, autonomy, inclusion and meaningful work.

She studies how digitalization and the increased presence of Big Tech in public sectors such as health and education destabilize the core values and democratic governance of these sectors. She has been a professor of Philosophy, Digitalization and Society at Radboud University since 2020.

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