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Tech Ethics: Avoiding Unintended Consequences

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Ethics Courses Risk Management Courses Addiction Courses Product Development Courses Ethical Decision-Making Courses Surveillance Courses Economic Inequality Courses Algorithmic Bias Courses Disinformation Courses

Course Description

Overview

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

Introduction
  • Technology and consequences
1. Tech Ethics: Why Now?
  • Unintended consequences: History and overview
  • We are all ethicists
2. The Wheel of Misfortune: Eight Major Risk Zones
  • 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
3. Actions: The Checklist
  • Why use checklists?
  • Example checklist
  • Customize your checklist
4. Integrations
  • Accountability: Making change stick
Conclusion
  • Ethical next steps

Taught by

Raina Kumra

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