I get this question pretty regularly, but I bet a lot of you have good suggestions.https://twitter.com/gretared/status/821880515544236032 …
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An ethical dilemma would be "I could demonstrably cure cancer if I did this thing that violated consent"
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We don't have those things in tech. We have "we could make life slightly more convenient if we violate user's consent"
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"We could make rich people's lives easier at the expense of poor people" isn't an ethical dilemma no matter what.
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granted. but you are establishing the absence of literal dilemmas by assertion.
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Well I can't prove a negative. But I can speak from expertise, which you can accept or not at your leisure.
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fair enough. i'm stuck depending on my own, it seems.
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Show me an actual ethical dilemma that doesn't require omitting external context and operates within established ethics rules.
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You could probably point to like, idk, a dozen or so easy to find Conflicts of financial Interest, which I'll grant...
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your humane tech blog! Am researching ethical dilemmas designers will face as we design for algorithms & automation. Thoughts?