Overview
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Get concrete approaches for evaluating and acting on the ethical questions technologists encounter constantly.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Towards an ethics for tech
- Why ethics matter to tech and design
- What are tech ethics
- A framework for tech ethics
- The four corners approach
- Ethics 101
- The pitch
- Document core capabilities
- Primer: Capability approach
- Capability ripples
- Equity and common good
- The dystopian approach
- Consequences and utilities
- Map consequences
- Primer: Consequentialism
- What went wrong: The pre-mortem
- Out-groups
- Rights and human dignity
- Assign a utility value
- Setting a good example
- Primer: Duty ethics
- The cranberries test
- The competitor test
- Reasonable expectations
- Duty of care
- Privacy and security
- Sidebar: Very bad people
- Virtues and values
- Primer: Virtue ethics
- Discover and define virtues
- The Headline Test
- Tying it all together
