Author(s)

Yiyang Liu ¹, Jinyong Li ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, China

Corresponding Author

ABSTRACT

The metaverse is a cutting-edge technology ecosystem that has emerged to further promote the digital transformation of social life. Its core feature is immersive three-dimensional experiences, attempting to create an independent parallel space separate from the physical world. It represents an innovative and disruptive moment in the evolution from two-dimensional spaces. While the virtual platform of the metaverse creates favorable conditions, it also poses complex and controversial social and ethical risks. This paper analyzes the inherent ethical concerns of the metaverse, scrutinizing its ethical issues, and proposes pathways to mitigate its social and ethical risks, safeguarding the metaverse's fairness and rationality, promoting the virtuous rehabilitation of virtual communities empowered by the metaverse and avoiding it becoming a tool of capital, technology, and domination, enslaving and alienating humanity.

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CITE THIS PAPER

Yiyang Liu, Jinyong Li, Research on Ethical Risk Governance of the Metaverse. Journal of Sociology and Ethnology (2023) Vol. 5: 50-54. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jsoce.2023.050809.

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