A Guide to Understanding Ethics in Technology
1h 37mIntermediate2024-02-13
Authors

Jonathan Reichental
Award-winning technology leader
Course details
New technologies are rapidly changing the way organizations function and the capabilities of products and services that can be provided. This rapid pace of change creates not just incredible new opportunities, but also unprecedented challenges for organizations, their staff, their customers, and society as a whole. A wide range of ethical considerations must now be anticipated and addressed. These ethical issues as they relate to technology form a developing domain of leadership responsibility known as technoethics. In this course, award-winning technology leader Jonathan Reichental introduces you to the essential 21st century competency of technoethics. Learn about organizational ethics, then begin building your understanding of technoethics. Explore the key focus areas of technoethics, including digitalization, responsible AI, privacy ethics, and more. Plus, go over practical tools and techniques that you will use as you explore technoethics.
Skills covered
Ethics and LawIntroduction toLeadership SkillsBusiness Analysis and StrategyLeadership and Management
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - An essential 21st-century competency
1. Organizational Ethics
- 02 - Understanding ethics
- 03 - The role of ethics in organizations
- 04 - Common ethical models
- 05 - Understanding fallacies in ethics
2. Understanding Technoethics
- 06 - Introducing technoethics
- 07 - Societal implications of technology
- 08 - Asking the right questions
3. Technoethics Focus Areas
- 09 - Digitalization
- 10 - Four ethical principles of digitalization
- 11 - Ethical artificial intelligence (AI)
- 12 - Responsible AI
- 13 - Privacy ethics
- 14 - Data ethics
- 15 - Five principles of data ethics
- 16 - Roboethics
- 17 - Ethics and social media
- 18 - Example technoethical dilemmas
4. Technoethics Tools and Techniques
- 19 - Developing technoethical policies and procedures
- 20 - What is a code of technoethics
- 21 - Creating a code of technoethics
- 22 - A framework for ethical decision-making
Conclusion
- 23 - Conclusion and next steps