Tech Ethics: Avoiding Unintended Consequences
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
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
- 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
Taught by
Raina Kumra
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