Tech Ethics

Business Ethics

Design Ethics

Data Ethics

AI Ethics

Machine Ethics

Robo Ethics

Conciousness

Existential risk

What is Ethics?

Normative standards

 

Obligations - to obstain from theft, murder, fraud.

Virtues - honesty, compassion, and loyalty

Consequences - happiness, socio-economic, environment

 

They are the study, and implementation of
society and the individual

 

Laws or Hard rules

 

But they are logical!

Business

Algorithms

Data

Design

Business

Algorithms

Data

Design

AI

AI

In what way do machines participate in ethical questions?

Why should we care?

The intent of

the use of machines

“It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.”

 

Jaron Lanier

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”

 

Samuel Johnson

“Our device isn’t meant to make employees more efficient. It’s meant to completely obviate them.”

 

Rise of the Robots

“I believe that we still have a role to play"

 

Robots and the Future of Work,
Leslie P. Willcocks, Mary C. Lacity

The ethical decision making of machine programs

What morals should we teach/code into the machines?

No consensus on any universal ethic,
so what do we use?

“If trained with a narrow set of data, an artificial intelligence may learn behaviors that are completely unintended and undesirable."

 

Nick Bostrom

“Perhaps interacting with an ethical robot might someday even inspire us to behave more ethically ourselves.”

Anderson, Anderson 2012

Data ethics

Data bias

Data miss-use
Bad data questions

 

Facebook /
cambridge analytica

The Ethical impact of technology on the Environmental

The business of business is making money at any cost

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is
no education at all.”

 

Aristotle

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

 

Alan Kay

Thank you

Extras:

• Trolley problem video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1wdMJlOBJk
• Users - humanise your users by calling them people
• “Be worthy of trust” - sounds virtuous
• Fight against abstraction