Part I Motivation and key concepts. 1 A humanistic approach. 2 What do we mean with ethics? 3 Is technology a neutral tool? 4 Value, wellbeing, and economics. 5 The problem with the ‘Trolley Problem’. 6 Privacy is about more than ‘privacy’. 7 What is your responsibility? Part II Different ethical perspectives. 8 Software for self-driving cars. 9 Consequences and outcomes. 10 Cameras in public spaces. 11 Duties and rights. 12 Smart devices in our homes. 13 Relationships and care. 14 A social media app. 15 Virtues and flourishing. Part III Methods to integrate ethics. 16 Methods to ‘do ethics’ in your project. 17 Human-Centred Design. 18 Value Sensitive Design. 19 Responsible Innovation. 20 What does your next project look like? 21 Exemplars. Notes and further reading. Gratitude. About the author. Index.
Marc Steen is Senior Research Scientist at TNO, a leading research and technology organization in The Netherlands.
Link to Marc’s recent talk at Big Data Analytics, London: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ8dCq1EVCA
"It is often said that ethics should be integrated in technical
projects and a growing number of people in tech recognize this
need, but it remains a challenge to bridge the gap between theory
and practice. Ethics for People Who Work in Tech directly addresses
those tech people who take up this challenge. It offers helpful
guidance for doing ethics not only with the head but – as the
author stresses – also with heart and hands. It does not tell tech
people what to do but respectfully supports them with their
reflections and deliberations by asking specific questions,
offering a range of methods such as value sensitive design and
responsible innovation, and – somewhat surprisingly – listing some
exemplary, virtuous people. Marc Steen patiently explains what
ethics is about, presenting a vision of tech ethics as a reflective
and deliberative process that is very practical and that is not
only about theory but also about organizing and, especially about
people. Taking the reader on a journey from topics such as
sustainable development and the problem of responsibility, and
linking discussions about different ethical perspectives – for
example virtue ethics – to concrete examples such as self-driving
cars and smart devices, Steen effortlessly succeeds in
communicating some key lessons from thinking about technology
ethics to practitioners in the field. Highly recommended for tech
professionals and anyone interested in how to integrate ethics into
tech projects and innovation processes."--Mark Coeckelbergh,
Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology, University of
Vienna. Author of Introduction to Philosophy of Technology"Ethics
for People Who Work in Tech is the resource that a growing chorus
of professionals and practitioners have been asking for: a
staggeringly clear, accessible, richly comprehensive and engaging
guide to understanding how ethics meets practice for those who
build, use or deploy technology in their work. Yet the book remains
deeply engaged with and respectful of the diverse traditions and
theories in which humans have sought ethical knowledge. Filled with
compelling examples, scenarios, case studies and exercises for
ethical learning and reflection by individual professionals and
teams, this book brings ethics down from the ivory tower of theory
and abstraction, and into the project or design space where it can
do its work in the world."-- Shannon Vallor, Baillie Gifford
Professor in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence, The
University of Edinburgh
"It is often said that ethics should be integrated in technical
projects and a growing number of people in tech recognize this
need, but it remains a challenge to bridge the gap between theory
and practice. Ethics for People Who Work in Tech directly addresses
those tech people who take up this challenge. It offers helpful
guidance for doing ethics not only with the head but – as the
author stresses – also with heart and hands. It does not tell tech
people what to do but respectfully supports them with their
reflections and deliberations by asking specific questions,
offering a range of methods such as value sensitive design and
responsible innovation, and – somewhat surprisingly – listing some
exemplary, virtuous people. Marc Steen patiently explains what
ethics is about, presenting a vision of tech ethics as a reflective
and deliberative process that is very practical and that is not
only about theory but also about organizing and, especially about
people. Taking the reader on a journey from topics such as
sustainable development and the problem of responsibility, and
linking discussions about different ethical perspectives – for
example virtue ethics – to concrete examples such as self-driving
cars and smart devices, Steen effortlessly succeeds in
communicating some key lessons from thinking about technology
ethics to practitioners in the field. Highly recommended for tech
professionals and anyone interested in how to integrate ethics into
tech projects and innovation processes."--Mark Coeckelbergh,
Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology, University of
Vienna. Author of Introduction to Philosophy of Technology"Ethics
for People Who Work in Tech is the resource that a growing chorus
of professionals and practitioners have been asking for: a
staggeringly clear, accessible, richly comprehensive and engaging
guide to understanding how ethics meets practice for those who
build, use or deploy technology in their work. Yet the book remains
deeply engaged with and respectful of the diverse traditions and
theories in which humans have sought ethical knowledge. Filled with
compelling examples, scenarios, case studies and exercises for
ethical learning and reflection by individual professionals and
teams, this book brings ethics down from the ivory tower of theory
and abstraction, and into the project or design space where it can
do its work in the world."-- Shannon Vallor, Baillie Gifford
Professor in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence, The
University of Edinburgh
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