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Digital twins: potentials, ethical issues and limitations

In: Handbook on the Politics and Governance of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

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  • Dirk Helbing
  • Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo

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After Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI), the subject of Digital Twins has emerged as another promising technology, advocated, built, and sold by various IT companies. The approach aims to produce highly realistic models of real systems. In the case of dynamically changing systems, such digital twins would have a life, i.e. they would change their behaviour over time and, in perspective, take decisions like their real counterparts - so the vision. In contrast to animated avatars, however, which only imitate the behaviour of real systems, like deep fakes, digital twins aim to be accurate “digital copies”, i.e. “duplicates” of reality, which may interact with reality and with their physical counterparts. This chapter explores, what are possible applications and implications, limitations, and threats.

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  • Dirk Helbing & Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo, 2023. "Digital twins: potentials, ethical issues and limitations," Chapters, in: Andrej Zwitter & Oskar J. Gstrein (ed.), Handbook on the Politics and Governance of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, chapter 3, pages 64-104, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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