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Ethical Engineering Milo Phillips-Brown + milopb@mit.edu + milopb.com Postdoctoral Associate in the Ethics of Technology, MIT Philosophy Research Fellow in Digital Ethics and Governance, Jain Family Institute Overview Overview 1. Why care

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Ethical Engineering

Milo Phillips-Brown + milopb@mit.edu + milopb.com

Postdoctoral Associate in the Ethics of Technology, MIT Philosophy Research Fellow in Digital Ethics and Governance, Jain Family Institute

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Overview

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Overview

  • 1. Why care about engineering ethically?
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Overview

  • 1. Why care about engineering ethically?
  • 2. Why do technologies do wrong?
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Overview

  • 1. Why care about engineering ethically?
  • 2. Why do technologies do wrong? (and how to prevent it)
  • 3. An exercise in ethical engineering
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Why care about engineering ethically? (you tell me!)

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Why care about engineering ethically? (you tell me!)

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Overview

  • 1. Why care about engineering ethically?
  • 2. Why do technologies do wrong?
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Why do technologies do wrong?

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3 possibilities

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Option 1: Bad apples mastermind hi

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Option 2: Incompetence mastermind hi

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Option 3: Somebody does what makes sense

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Often, technologies do wrong because people do what makes sense

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Why would it make sense to make things that do wrong?

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Engineering doesn’t happen in a vacuum hi

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Ethical engineering is not incentivized hi

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Unethical engineering is normal hi

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The ethical stuff is not taken into account hi

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When a technology does wrong ask: what was taken into account? incentivized? normal? …?

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Overview

  • 1. Why care about engineering ethically?
  • 2. Why do technologies do wrong? (and how to prevent it)
  • 3. An exercise in ethical engineering:
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How to take ethics into account?

Ethics Protocol

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Ethic ics Protocol: overview

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Ethic ics Protocol: overview

ENVISION FUTURES

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Ethic ics Protocol: overview

ENVISION FUTURES IDENTIFY STAKE- HOLDERS

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Ethic ics Protocol: overview

ENVISION FUTURES IDENTIFY STAKE- HOLDERS IDENTIFY VALUES

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Ethic ics Protocol: overview

ENVISION FUTURES IDENTIFY STAKE- HOLDERS IDENTIFY VALUES

MAP VALUES TO CHOICES

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Ethic ics Protocol: overview

ENVISION FUTURES IDENTIFY STAKE- HOLDERS IDENTIFY VALUES

MAP VALUES TO CHOICES

CHOOSE!

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Project 5

The small object next to a computer keyboard is most likely to be a computer mouse, not an elephant. In the real world, objects often co- vary with other objects and particular environments. In the project, we have two primary goals. The first is to develop an understanding for the brain’s ability to process and comprehend visual input through a biological and quantified explanation. Second, we further hope to utilize this understanding towards building a robust computational model, which would contribute to enabling current technology to identify visual cues more meticulously.

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Project 5

The small object next to a computer keyboard is most likely to be a computer mouse, not an elephant. In the real world, objects often co- vary with other objects and particular environments. In the project, we have two primary goals. The first is to develop an understanding for the brain’s ability to process and comprehend visual input through a biological and quantified explanation. Second, we further hope to utilize this understanding towards building a robust computational model, which would contribute to enabling current technology to identify visual cues more meticulously.

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An exercise in ethical engineering:

Place recognition

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Ethic ics Protocol: overview

ENVISION FUTURES

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Ethic ics Protocol: overview

ENVISION FUTURES

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Ethic ics Protocol: overview

ENVISION FUTURES IDENTIFY STAKE- HOLDERS

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Stakeholders

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Stakeholders

  • A stakeholder is anyone or anything that

can affect or be affected by your project.

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Stakeholders

  • A stakeholder is anyone or anything that

can affect or be affected by your project.

  • Stakeholders are not just stockholders,

you and your company, or your users.

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Stakeholders

  • A stakeholder is anyone or anything that

can affect or be affected by your project.

  • Stakeholders are not just stockholders,

you and your company, or your users.

  • Stakeholders are often indirect.
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Question for you: why do we define “stakeholder” so broadly?

definition (from before): a stakeholder is anyone or anything that can affect or be affected by your project

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Why define “stakeholder” so broadly?

  • There are no ethical externalities: from the ethical point
  • f view, everything matters
  • That doesn’t mean you’re responsible for everything.
  • But to be engineer ethically, you need to know what the

ethical effects are!

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Why define “stakeholder” so broadly?

  • There are no ethical externalities: from the ethical point
  • f view, everything matters
  • That doesn’t mean you’re responsible for everything.
  • But to be engineer ethically, you need to know what the

ethical effects are!

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Why define “stakeholder” so broadly?

  • There are no ethical externalities: from the ethical point
  • f view, everything matters
  • That doesn’t mean you’re responsible for everything.
  • But to be engineer ethically, you need to know what the

ethical effects are!

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Why define “stakeholder” so broadly?

  • There are no ethical externalities: from the ethical point
  • f view, everything matters
  • That doesn’t mean you’re responsible for everything.
  • But to be engineer ethically, you need to know what the

ethical effects are!

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Ethic ics Protocol: overview

ENVISION FUTURES IDENTIFY STAKE- HOLDERS

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FROM STAKEHOLDERS TO WHAT’S AT STAKE: VALUES (MORAL SIGNIFICANCE)

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Ethic ics Protocol: overview

ENVISION FUTURES IDENTIFY STAKE- HOLDERS IDENTIFY VALUES

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HOW DO WE IDENTIFY VALUES AT PLAY?

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MORAL LENSES

Different ways of looking at effects on stakeholders that reveal different kinds of moral significance

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OUTCOME LENS

In what ways does your technology turn

  • ut better or worse for each stakeholder in

comparison to the starting state?

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PROCESS LENS

How did the process treat each stakeholder?

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STRUCTURE LENS

How are the outcomes distributed among stakeholders? what were the differences in how stakeholders were treated in the process? what are the patterns?

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Group work: moral lenses exercise

  • Outcomes: identify two stakeholders that may be benefited (and

how); identify two stakeholders that may be harmed (and how).

  • Process: identify a situation where things look bad, process-wise,

even if it looks good outcome-wise

  • Structure: identify a situation we things don’t look good, structure-

wise, even if it looks fine, outcome- or process-wise

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Ethic ics Protocol: overview

ENVISION FUTURES IDENTIFY STAKE- HOLDERS IDENTIFY VALUES

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THE CHOICES YOU MAKE HAVE VALUE- LADEN EFFECTS: DESIGN IS VALUE- LADEN

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Ethic ics Protocol: overview

ENVISION FUTURES IDENTIFY STAKE- HOLDERS IDENTIFY VALUES

MAP VALUES TO CHOICES

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Group work

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Group work

  • Fill out at least one chart:
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Group work

  • Fill out at least one chart:
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Ethic ics Protocol: overview

ENVISION FUTURES IDENTIFY STAKE- HOLDERS IDENTIFY VALUES

MAP VALUES TO CHOICES

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Ethic ics Protocol: overview

ENVISION FUTURES IDENTIFY STAKE- HOLDERS IDENTIFY VALUES

MAP VALUES TO CHOICES

CHOOSE

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THE IMPORTANCE OF STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT

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imagining fu futures + other stakeholders + values

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should stakeholders have some

  • wnership
  • ver design

process?

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The module is over.

  • 1. Why care about engineering ethically?
  • 2. Why do technologies do wrong? (and how to prevent it)
  • 3. An exercise in ethical engineering
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The module is over. Now what?

  • 1. Why care about engineering ethically?
  • 2. Why do technologies do wrong? (and how to prevent it)
  • 3. An exercise in ethical engineering
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Your feedback will really help bit.ly/ethicsfeedback958