Technology and Design Ethics

Get concrete approaches for evaluating and acting on the ethical questions technologists encounter constantly.

Introduction

• Towards an ethics for tech

1. A Framework for Tech Ethics

• Why ethics matter to tech and design
• What are tech ethics
• A framework for tech ethics
• The four corners approach
• Ethics 101
• The pitch

2. Capabilities

• Document core capabilities
• Primer: Capability approach
• Capability ripples
• Equity and common good
• The dystopian approach

3. Consequences and Utilities

• Consequences and utilities
• Map consequences
• Primer: Consequentialism
• What went wrong: The pre-mortem
• Out-groups
• Rights and human dignity
• Assign a utility value

4. Duty

• 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

5. Virtue

• Virtues and values
• Primer: Virtue ethics
• Discover and define virtues
• The Headline Test

6. Ethics Is a Process

• Tying it all together