ABSTRACT
This chapter argues the most interesting question that whether smart technology is changing its scope. Reflection on moral sensitivity has generally assumed that the moral agent is human: sensing, thinking, and acting on morally salient information within the human-affected environment. The chapter also argues that there are good reasons to question this assumption in the unfolding digital world, a world increasingly mapped, surveilled, and shaped by context-aware sensors, trackers, AI devices, and information connectivity. The rise of the Internet and pervasive computing requires us to rethink whether smart technology is something more than a tool. James Rest's minimal definition of moral sensitivity highlights three important trends: how human moral sensitivity is being extended to the online second-self, how smart technology increasingly nudges and shapes behavior and how machine intelligence may ask us to reconsider basic assumptions about moral sensitivity itself.
