Questions tagged [computer-ethics]
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Would it be immoral to enslave your own simulated mind?
The following story has been envisioned in White Christmas episode (part II) of Black Mirror television series (see the short clip):
Matt greets the confused and terrified "Greta cookie" consciousness. He explains that she is not actually Greta,…
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Should websites display our private information without asking us?
I mean our main chat environments, such as Facebook and Gmail. Displaying the fact that I have read the message at 4:20 pm, or making my status "available" without asking me.
And also trying literally everything to keep me from disabling those…
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Moral issues in cyber technology
Is anyone of deontology or utilitarianism adequate to handle moral issues in cyber technology? Or do we need some other theory?
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Is it wrong to build addictive apps?
Modern social media apps are built and continuously optimized for engagement. The makers of these apps do their job so well that it gets people to spend time on the apps instead of spending it with their kids, spouses or friends. It gets people to…
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From ethical actions to ethical goals, from the Commandments/Beatitudes to the New Jerusalem?
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems (autonomous vehicles, autonomous decision support systems, autonomous humanoid robots etc.) are required to make ethical decisions and it is strong feature of the AI systems that they expect goals to be provided…
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Ethics Test Question
I'm a very selfish person, so these ethics questions are really hard for me to do.
This one goes like so:
You are making a computer system for your manager. You realize the
system would hold sensitive customer information so you present your
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What are some good resources on the ring of Gyges and mass surveillance?
Plato in the Republic recounts a story about a magical artifact, the Ring of Gyges, in Book II of the Republic. It is a device to motivate an investigation into the collective aspect of morality. Would anyone be ethical if they did not need to fear…
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Is it fair that computer programs can be copied without additional work, while other tangibles cannot?
Is it fair that computer programs can be copied without additional work, while other tangibles cannot?
Yet they are all sold in the same markets in exchange to the same currency?
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Why do software developers frequently put all the burden onto the user?
I can't tell you how many times I've downloaded some software, expected to install it in seconds and be using it immediately, only to be harassed during the installation process to install all kinds of third-party crap:
XYZ is not installed. Do you…
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Does capability design force a re-eximantion of anonymity?
Following up on this recent question and generalizing, let's consider capability-oriented design. In this framing, a capability is a communicable token of authority; possession of a capability is equivalent to delegation of authority. Crucially, the…
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Is Avatar Sexuality Likely to Persist in the Event of a Digitalised 'Humanity'?
The biological sexual act is vital to current human experience; it is one of our most powerful motivators and vital to the perpetuation of the species.
Humans do not require a present physical partner to participate in sexual experience, thanks to…
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