Tamar Sharon
In The Digital Dilemma
Science
Synopsis
The Digital Dilemma
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.
The Digital Dilemma is part of Ammodo Docs, a series of short documentaries about original minds in arts and science.
In coproduction with: Een van de Jongens
Credits
- Character
- Tamar Sharon
- Director
- Stephane Kaas
- Country
- Netherlands
- Duration
- 18 min
- Year
- 2025
Together with an interdisciplinary research group, Tamar Sharon defends public values in an increasingly digitalised world.
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.
Acclaims
• Co-founder and co-director of the Interdisciplinary Hub for Digitalization and Society (iHub) at Radboud University.
• Member of the European Group on Ethics (EGE), which advises the President of the European Commission on new technologies.
• Recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Edmond Hustinx Prize for Science (2015), NWO Veni (2014) and Vidi (2018) grants, ERC Starting Grant (2019) and the Ammodo Science Award (2022).
Director
Stephane Kaas
Stephane Kaas (Amsterdam, 1984) is a documentary filmmaker who combines documentary, animation, and fiction. His debut film about writer Etgar Keret won, among other awards, an International Emmy. In In Real Life I Have a Nose, he explores how webcomics use humor to address social issues. He has created TV series for VPRO and HUMAN and contributed to VPRO Tegenlicht episodes on animal languages, geo-engineering, and the relationship between finance and nature.