Ethics of Technology

About this course

This course explores the ethical implications of data analytics. It connects old ideas – privacy, surveillance, power, justice, accountability, corporate responsibility, stakeholder theory – with new technologies and cases, such as the use of machine learning to predict crime. The course will prepare you to evaluate strategic arguments about the ethics of data analytics and to relate data analytics to ethical concepts so that you approach newer, ambiguous capabilities of technology and artificial intelligence with a critical eye.

What you will learn

• Examine the role and responsibilities of design and development in the ethics of data and analytics.
• Analyze the ethical dimensions of data and analytics using conceptual tools and a moral vocabulary.
• Categorize ethical issues associated with data analytics development and use.
• Investigate the ethical dilemmas associated with data analytics.