Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Special Emphasis
Technology and Ethics
Applied Ethics
Applied Ethics - Examples
• Google employees have asked for a company policy that says they
wouldn’t use Artificial Intelligenceto develop weapons or
technologies whose main purpose is to hurt people. They’re
concerned that some technology used in government contracts could
be used to violate basic human rights
• These concerns are all legitimate, given the global power of the
internet to transmit information.
• Many professions are driven by a code of ethics. Medinr is a great
example, with the golden rule being “First, do no harm”.
Why Ethics needed in Technology