Philosophy of AI Presentation Series 2025

Hybrid presentation series with the aim of popularizing the most recent topics of discussion in the philosophy of AI, to the use and interests of experts across all disciplines that has something to say about digital innovation.

The theme of this series of presentations is to present various debates in the philosophy of AI. The talks will be offered by experts coming from several disciplines around AI and digital innovation, and the aim of the series is generally to foster cross-pollination and interaction between different fields. This includes (not exhaustively) philosophy, engineering, information systems, informatics, law, political sciences, sociology.

The conference is funded by the DSI Ethics Community and hosted in the Digital Library Space.

1. Session

March 18,  3:00 – 4:30 pm,

Online

https://uzh.zoom.us/j/67456274806?pwd=fOZJb9QpzwzdPI1IsUZJaxKbybpI7V.1

Speaker: Christoph Burtscher (Visiting fellow at Henley Business School , PhD at Universität Innsbruck)

Legitimacy of Non-Complaint IT Use

My legitimacy paper is influenced by my research area of non-compliant IT use (or some would call it shadow IT or cyberslacking). Based on mainly management but also some IS literature, I used an organizing and then broad-theorizing review approach to analyze the available literature and synthesize the understanding of legitimacy resulting in a thematic map through thematic analysis. In the theorizing review, I applied a praxeological neo-sociotechnical system lens to transfer the legitimacy phenomenon to the IS discipline, specifically to non-compliant IT use, developing a technology legitimacy framework with boundary conditions, legitimacy propositions, and a model.