Course Name:

Introduction to
Emerging
Technologies Course

Module
(EMTE1011/1012)5

Department CIT
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 CHAPTER 6

ETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM OF

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

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Introduction

In the previous chapters, emerging

technologies like big data, artificial
intelligence, internet of things and
augmented reality were discussed.
After having a discussion on all of the
above emerging technologies, it is time
to study their connection with our
ethical values as well as social values.
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6.1) Technology and ethics

 From your civic and ethical

education course, what do you
understand about the word ethics?

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Cont’d

Ethics is particularly important for the

accountancy profession, with a code for
professional ethics based on five basic principles:
 integrity,
 objectivity,
 competence and due care,
 confidentiality, and professional behavior.
However, the emergence of new technologies
raises some new challenges for the profession to
address.
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6.2) New ethical questions

 What do you think the need for ethics in data science?

 Is it really important to include ethical rules when dealing
with big data? If your answer is yes, why?
 As we discussed in chapter three, AI is all about making a
machine learn and decide as humans do.
 Do you think that it is necessary to rely on machines and
give all the opportunity to decide? Why?
 Do you think that integrating ethical rules with emerging
technologies is important? If your answer is yes, why?
 What are the challenges of integrating ethical rules with
the new technologies?

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General ethical principles
Ethical rules that must be applied in all technologies
1. Contribute to society and to human well-being,
acknowledging that all people are stakeholders in
computing.
2. Avoid harm.
3. Be honest and trustworthy.
4. Be fair and take action not to discriminate
5. Respect the work required to produce new ideas,
inventions, creative works, and computing artifacts.
6. Respect privacy.
7. Honor confidentiality
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6.3) Digital privacy

 What do you think about privacy in

general? Is it really important?
 In this digital world, what do you
mean by digital privacy? Give
concrete examples?

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Cont’d

Digital Privacy: the protection

of personally identifiable or
business identifiable information
that is collected from respondents
through information collection
activities or from other sources.

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Cont’d

It is a collective definition that

encompasses three sub-related
categories;
Information privacy,
Communication privacy, and
Individual privacy

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Information Privacy

Information privacy: is the notion that

individuals should have the freedom, or
right, to determine how their digital
information, mainly that pertaining to
personally identifiable information, is
collected and used.

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Communication Privacy

Communication Privacy: is the notion that

individuals should have the freedom, or
right, to communicate information digitally
with the expectation that their
communications are secure;
Meaning that messages and communications
will only be accessible to the sender's
original intended recipient.
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Individual Privacy

Individual Privacy: is the notion that

individuals have a right to exist freely on the
internet, in that they can choose what types
of information they are exposed to, and more
importantly that unwanted information
should not interrupt them.
Example: Unwanted ads and emails/spam.

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 Give some examples you have to
consider to make your data as well
as communication private?

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Some digital privacy principles

Data Minimization
Transparency
Accuracy
Security

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Challenges?

Challenges in using Artificial Intelligence?

Challenges in using Robotics in
manufacturing?
Challenges in using the Internet of Things?
Challenges in Big Data?

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Chapter Six Review Questions

1. What is the importance of ethics in emerging

technologies?
2. List down some general ethical rules?
3. What is digital privacy? What is its importance?
4. Briefly explain digital privacy principles.
5. Briefly explain the challenges in using:
a. AI?
b. Robots?
c. IoT?

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End of Chapter 6

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