Technology Ethics Is Broken

What Will You Learn?

• * Recognize the two cardinal sins of high technology and overwhelming evidence of declining trust in high tech.
  
• * Predict how the institutionalized drive for optimization, efficiency, and money can lead to problems. Efficiency is not always inherently a good thing. What is measurable is not always meaningful.
  
• * Analyze how the marriage of high tech and venture capitalists has amplified the negative impacts and lacks a moral commitment. How “goals gone wild” lead to narrow goal setting, excessive risk taking, and an increase in unethical behavior.
  
• * Identify the power and pitfalls of algorithms, the human element of algorithmic decisions, and the “wild west” of data collection and the “privacy paradox.”
  
• * Indicate the importance of transparency at all levels, regulations relative to privacy and individual rights (such as GDPR and CCPA), and strong codes of professional ethics of technologists, and much more.