Overview
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Embed ethics into your product development workflow. Explore examples of tech gone wrong—and how to avoid ethical issues in your own projects—in this lighthearted course.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Technology and consequences
- Unintended consequences: History and overview
- We are all ethicists
- Imagining future risk today
- The wheel of misfortune: Eight emerging risk zones
- Risk zone 1: Truth, disinformation, and propaganda
- Risk zone 2: Addiction and the dopamine economy
- Risk zone 3: Economic and asset inequalities
- Risk zone 4: Machine ethics and algorithmic bias
- Risk zone 5: Surveillance state
- Risk zone 6: Data control and monetization
- Risk zone 7: Implicit trust and user understanding
- Risk zone 8: Hateful and criminal actors
- Why use checklists?
- Example checklist
- Customize your checklist
- Accountability: Making change stick
- Ethical next steps
