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id: "aiethics:lecture/islamic-philosophy-techno-social-good"
type: "AI Ethics course lecture"
title: "The Islamic Philosophy of Techno-Social Good"
url: "https://aiethicscourse.org/lectures/islamic-philosophy-techno-social-good"
authors: ["Amana Raquib"]
summary: "In this module, Amana Raquib will situate and contextualize the ethical discourse around AI within the larger nexus of technology, society and ethics."
source: "AI Ethics: Global Perspectives (aiethicscourse.org)"
licence: "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)"
---

# The Islamic Philosophy of Techno-Social Good

A lecture of the course [AI Ethics: Global Perspectives](https://aiethicscourse.org/).

## Lecturer

- Amana Raquib, Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy, Department of Social Sciences and Liberal Arts, Institute of Business Administration

## About this lecture

In this module, Amana Raquib will situate and contextualize the ethical discourse around AI within the larger nexus of technology, society and ethics. Looking at the potential of technology both as an expression of human creativity, and as a means for enabling different visions and versions of societies and individuals that can be shaped through various ethical models informing the technological design and development. On the one hand, she will evaluate the ethical and moral dilemmas through evaluating the overall meaningfulness behind the creation and use of technologies, especially AI, in a late-modern age. She’ll then apply the Islamic ethical standards of human well-being (maslaha) and the eventual objective of attaining excellence of human character along with the traditional Islamic hierarchy of necessities, needs and enhancements to look at the role of AI in human life.

## Video and transcript

- Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHUeKdl6_ZE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHUeKdl6_ZE)
- Transcript (PDF): [https://aiethicscourse.org/img/4c400900-a8ac-4a9c-a3cc-d80c10578060.pdf](https://aiethicscourse.org/img/4c400900-a8ac-4a9c-a3cc-d80c10578060.pdf)

## Read, watch, and listen

- [Islamic Ethics of Technology: An Objectives (Maqasid) Approach](https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Islamic_Ethics_of_Technology.html?id=G432BwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y), Raquib, Amana. Islamic Ethics of Technology: An Objectives (Maqasid) Approach. The Other Press, 2015.
- [Dr Junaid Qadir—Artificial Intelligence: Intro, Brief History, Benefits and Ethical Dilemmas](https://youtu.be/wIPchnaGczk)
- [Islamic virtue-based ethics for artificial intelligence](https://doi.org/10.1007/s44163-022-00028-2), Raquib, A., Channa, B., Zubair, T. et al. "Islamic virtue-based ethics for artificial intelligence." Discover Artificial Intelligence, vol. 2, no. 11, 2022.
- [Islamic Perspective on Social Media Technology, Addiction, and Human Values](https://doi.org/10.32350/jitc.102.14), Zubair, T. and Raquib, A.. "Islamic Perspective on Social Media Technology, Addiction, and Human Values." Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization, vol. 10, no. 2, 2020.
- [Creation of the Islamic Self for Sustainability: Can Muslim Entrepreneurship Positively Contribute to the SDGs through Tazkiyah and Tarbiyah of the Muslim Youth](https://jibm.org/table-of-contents/volume10-issue2/article3/), Raquib, A., Javaid, O. and Anjum, G.. "Creation of the Islamic Self for Sustainability: Can Muslim Entrepreneurship Positively Contribute to the SDGs through Tazkiyah and Tarbiyah of the Muslim Youth." Journal of Islamic Business and Management, vol. 10, no. 2, 2020, pp.323-342.
- [Entrepreneurship as An Agent for Social-Ethical Reform: An Islamic Perspective](https://doi.org/10.52282/icr.v10i1.71), Raquib, A. and Khan, I.. "Entrepreneurship as An Agent for Social-Ethical Reform: An Islamic Perspective." ICR Journal, vol. 10, no. 1, 2019, pp.47-63.
- [Combating Fake News, Misinformation, and Machine Learning Generated Fakes: Insight’s from the Islamic Ethical Tradition](https://doi.org/10.52282/icr.v10i2.42), Zubair, T., Raquib, A. and Qadir, J.. "Combating Fake News, Misinformation, and Machine Learning Generated Fakes: Insight’s from the Islamic Ethical Tradition." ICR Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, 2019, pp.189-212.