...Evolving technology and how it affects ethics We live in a world where technology is rapidly evolving everyday, where the second you buy a brand new computer it is already obsolete within that same year with something better already being produced. And now gadgets such as google glass which allow people to take pictures and videos just by blinking without the consent of those around the user, how exactly must we as a people adapt and change our views on ethics as technology continues to evolve. One of the biggest moral issues today is the creation of unmanned drones and their use during violent conflicts. The main issue many people have against them is their ability to take a human life and not experience the horror or conflict of making such a decision. Where does that leave us as humans where we will eventually allow robots to make the decisions of whether or not to kill a certain person based on data it has collected. On the other side of this argument there is something called the Millian harm principle where many people believe that (“The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.”) A very strong statement but one that does make sense in my own opinion. Seeing how technology today is already affecting us and making us as humans look at ethics in a different way and perhaps creating new policies in order to adapt to this ever changing world, what we do now may have...
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...Ethical Concerns in Computing: Robot Ethics Ashley Ramos INF 103: Computer Literacy Cathy Johnson November 26, 2013 From a cash register to driverless cars, technology is all around us whether we like it or not, and it is only going to continue to grow. The more technology advances, the more we can do or use it for, and the more concerns it raises. When a computer was first introduced, we weren't thinking about if it could tell right from wrong, we were thrilled that we had a machine that could do somewhat complex calculations. As technology advanced these issues of morals came into play. The first person to look into ethics and the issues that go along with it was James Moor (Bowles, 2013). Since then it has been a highly debated topic that continues to grow. There are many different ethical issues involving information technology, some of which are mentioned in our textbook. Just like with any personal data (Social Security Numbers, bank account information, etc), we expect this information to be kept private and only give it out to who we believe to be trusted people. "Privacy of that data and the importance of ensuring that only authorized people know certain things about other people's lives." (Bowles, 2013). Another issue mentioned in the textbook is the accuracy of our personal information that is entered into the various systems. This information is only as accurate as the human typing it in makes it. Because digital information is so much easier...
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...organization. It also is the process of designing and maintaining an environment in which individuals, working together in groups, efficiently accomplish selected aims. The most important thing why companies should have Human Resources Management? Is because Technology, Trends and Challenges in Human Resources and Human Resource Ethics. Technological advancements have improved the ways we communicate, revolutionized how we learn, and expanded our capabilities. Whether it is the invention of a new machine, moderations to an existing one, or the discovery of a new application for an existing technology, the field is forever growing and expanding. In the early stages, it may seem like more of a hassle than it's worth to keep up with these changing trends. It always proves worthwhile in the end, however, as new technologies bring both increased proficiency and productivity. Mikes state that” As increased proficiency and productivity are main goals of any human resources personnel, it's no wonder technological advancements are continually being embraced in this field where the mission is always to do more with less”(Mikes par.12). In order to make the most of their highly protracted time, workers in HR are using technologies such as computer-assisted interviewing and employee self-service, as well as a variety of other technological tools, to make the most out of their time that's already scarce. Database...
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...report that The Home Depot closed all of its stores within China. To help them globalize their company they expanded in purchasing a lot of the featured products from companies overseas. With the market buying things overseas is cheaper than making products within the United States. There are many ways to expand globally, many different strategies, and many options for places to expand to. The best way to succeed, whether it comes to the first store or the store is overseas, is a great management plan and training. Understanding where each person goes within the management and proper communication between the upper management, middle management, and front managers. Home Depot uses technology in many way through out there business and continues to advance their technology. One big area of technology Home Depot has been focusing on is combining the...
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...Reference Material on Ethics Books and Book Chapters Baase, S. (1997) A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal and Ethical Issues in Computing, Prentice Hall. Berleur, J. and Bruunstein, K. (Eds.) (1996) Ethics of Computing: Codes, Spaces for Discussion and Law, Chapman & Hall: London. Berleur, J. and Whitehouse, D. (Eds.) (1997) An Ethical Global Information Society: Cuture and Democracy Revisited (Proceedings of the IFIP WG 9.2/9.5 Corfu International Conference) Chapman & Hall: London. Berleur, J., Duquenoy, P. and Whitehouse, D. (Eds) (1999) Ethics and the Governance of the Internet, IFIP-SIG 9.2.2 (IFIP Framework for the Ethics of Computing), IFIP Press: Laxenburg, Austria Bowman, J.S. and Menzel, D.C. (1998) Teaching Ethics and Values in Public Administration Programs: Innovations, Strategies and Issues, SUNY Press: Albany. Cappel, J.J. and Kappelman, L. (1997) The Year 2000 Problem: An Ethical Perspective, in: Kappelman, L., (Ed.), Year 2000 Problem: Strategies and Solutions from the Fortune 100, International Thomson Computer Press, Boston, 158-163. Floridi, L. (1999) Philosophy and Computing, London: Routledge. Johnson, D.G. and Nissenbaum, H. (1995) Computers, Ethics and Social Values, Prentice Hall. Kallman, E.A. and Grillo, J.P. (1996) Ethical Decision Making and Information Technology: An Introduction with Cases, McGraw Hill. Kaplan, B., Farzanfar, R. and Friedman R.H. (1999) Research and Ethical Issues Arising from Ethnographic Interviews of Patients’...
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...sustainability and the historic patterns surrounding will be describe, along with human values and how it affects the challenges in society. Examples of environmental hazards and how they affect the health of humans will also be provided. There are many environmental issues facing the world today. To try to understand how the natural world functions is not an easy concept to comprehend and definitely not an easy responsibility to put on society. This is why it is important to know and recognize the significance of environmental science. Environmental science is the interdisciplinary study of humanity’s relationship with other organisms and the nonliving physical environment. As human population continues to reproduce, as technology progresses and the wants and needs of humans multiply, society’s impacts on the world become harsher, despite the improvement in some areas. Environmental impacts can affect the health of humans and a human’s wellbeing. After reviewing research on the environment, environmental hazards directly affect human health. One major environmental hazard to human health is pesticides. These pesticides are more likely to harm children than adults because children have the tendency to sit down on the floor when playing. Because they are on the floor, children are at greater risk of pesticide residues. Also, the bodies of children are still developing; it seems that they are more sensitive to pesticides. Another environmental hazard...
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...FEIT31272 Project Management and the Professional Assignment 1 | Ethics of UAVs | 11035425 Ngo, Kevin 11035502 Truong, Matthew | Table of Contents Executive Summary 2 Introduction 2 Overview 3 Definition 3 History of UAV 4 Civil Use 7 Background: 8 Small Picture Ethics 9 Big Picture Ethics 12 Deontology. 12 Relativism 15 Virtue ethics 17 Future use: 19 Recommendation 21 Individual Opinion 22 Kevin Ngo 22 Matthew Truong 25 Reference List 27 Executive Summary Introduction Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can generally be defined as a “device used or intended to be used for flight in the air that has no on-board pilot”. Current generations of UAVs “can be as small as an insect or as large as a charter flight”. They can be launched from a road or a small vehicle, but are often large enough to accommodate cameras, sensors or other information gathering equipment. Recently, discussions of UAVs have shifted most of the attention toward the ethical, legal and privacy implications that UAVs have, on society in global and domestic level. Overview Definition ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- There are many various terms used to identify these unmanned vehicles to which by its definition are that of a craft without a human pilot within. The most commonly accepted term would be UAV ( unmanned aerial vehicles); the US military much prefer...
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...Diversity can be described as the state of having many different types, ideas, or forms. It is especially important because different points of view can lead to change, which could certainly be change for the better. Diversity in agriscience education has been acting since it was founded. Some examples could be how women and African Americans were invited to join the National FFA Organization. Another example in agriculture is how more Global Positioning System technology, along with drones and other amenities, are being implemented into the trade. As for me and diversity, I will try to welcome change, as long as I foresee it to be positive, with open arms. Although I am naturally not a huge fan of change, I do realize that it is extremely important factor for growth and development in an organization. Therefore, in future situations, I will try to welcome change while also staying true to my roots and...
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...Ethics are a system of moral principles. They may also be interpreted as a branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct; this is with respect to rightness and wrongness of certain actions as well as the motives of said actions. Ethical issues in regard to informational technology examines this structural belief through the examination of developing an ethical code, societal changes due to Informational technologies, the ethical usage of the technologies, and how these ethics should be enforced. Through the utilization of Brooks (2010) a distinct thesis shall be executed in which ethics and the issues regarding them in relation to information technology shall be portrayed. When developing a code of ethics one must understand where it is this code must derive to be succinct and coherent. There must be an understanding and a comprehension of society’s beliefs and core founding. This is necessary due to the state of moral that ethics must uphold. The moral state of ethics must conform to what is universally agreed upon as right or wrong. Without a mutual agreement among the masses the ideas that may or may not be portrayed are nothing more than biased decisions geared for the betterment of the individual. Technologies other than computers have also posed complex ethical issues. Consider all of the concern that was expressed when discussing the power of the atomic bomb. There were many questions to ask such as, should such a powerful tool be created and ultimately...
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...unique jargon, futuristic technologies, and the ethical issues that are presented throughout the show. Although it seems unrealistic that a science fiction entertainment franchise may teach us about present day life and endeavors that we may encounter in the future, Star Trek successfully does exactly that throughout it’s many television episodes and movies. In ”The Measure of a Man" (season 2 episode 9) and "Ethics" (season 5 episode 16) from Star Trek: The Next Generation, some of the most evident characteristics are the issues we may encounter in both robotics and the new technology in the medical field. Through the situations the humans, Klingons, and androids encounter on the Starship Enterprise, we are able to see the different opinions people have around current and future ethical issues. As intelligent technologies and robots quickly advance and become more apparent in our everyday lives, we must have a good understanding of what rights these technologies have and in what just ways we are able to use them. Star Trek: Next Generation does an excellent example of presenting this issue in “The...
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...differently due to internal and external factors. These same rules apply to management. The factors that affect management are planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. There are many moving parts and all of these pieces must work cohesively together for an organization, or body to exist. Management ensures that each branch is functioning properly or making the necessary changes to increase productivity. Throughout history, many organizations had to adapt to these internal and external factors due to globalization, technology, innovations, diversity, and ethics. An idea starts as a seed and that seed grows into a tree. Just as a tree, the idea branches out as it ages. The same theory applies when it comes to globalization. One would hope that his or her idea would multiply and flourish. To do so, one must properly plan for the proposed growth that they hope to attain. This feat requires organization of the internal resources to ensure stabilization of future growth. Just as the tree grows taller, it also grows wider to support the addition weight. The internal leadership must oversee and forecast the addition weight through its planning to keep control. Globalization With over seven billion people in the world and one hundred and ninety-six countries, how would they all keep in touch? AT&T, a veteran in the communication business would be in the forefront of the dilemma. “The history of AT&T is in large measure the history of the telephone in the United States...
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...Ethics and Privacy of Communications in the E-Polis Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic and Virginia Horniak Department of Computer Science and Electronics Mälardalen University Västerås, Sweden I N T R O D U C T I O N The electronic networking of physical space promises wide-ranging advances in science, medicine, delivery of services, environmental monitoring and remediation, industrial production, and the monitoring of persons and machines. It can also lead to new forms of social interaction [..]. However, without appropriate architecture and regulatory controls it can also subvert democratic values. Information technology is not in fact neutral in its values; we must be intentional about design for democracy. (Pottie, 2004) Information and communication technology, ICT, has led to the emergence of global web societies. The subject of this article is privacy and its protection in the process of urbanization and socialization of the global digital web society referred to as the e-polis. Privacy is a fundamental human right recognized in all major international agreements regarding human rights such as Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations, 1948), and it will be discussed in the chapter under the heading Different Views of Privacy. Today’s computer network technologies are sociologically founded on huntergatherer principles. As a result, common users may be possible subjects of surveillance and sophisticated Internet-based attacks. A user may be completely...
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...Running head: Ethics and the College Student 1 The Ethics and College Student Title Page: BY MAURICE M. OWENS ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to see the college students’ view of ethics. There was enough evidence to say that college students’ perceive ethics instruction, and those who teach it, to be relevant and beneficial in shaping their own ethical behaviors. Students’ attitudes towards cheating is measured by their perception of cheating in high school, college, and non-major classes. The use of technology has an impact on college ethics since it is easier to cheat in online/hybrid classes and when some kind of technology is used in a course. College students believe that they are living in an ethical campus environment, where their faculty members are mostly ethical in nature and that it is never to late to learn about ethics in college. The Ethics and College Student Title Page: 2 Ethics is truly and important asset within today’s society, there are so many ways you can define ethics. I will say that to me ethics is about your upbringing, starting from the day you were born. Ethics will keep together and organization or it will dismantle and organization, you must enforce structure and guidelines. There are three strong principles when we talk about students and ethics. I call this (R, A, O) Responsibility, Accountability and Ownership. Students must be Responsible and withhold the obligations and the integrity of the school in which...
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...The year 2000 is marked as the first year of the 21st century. In this century, a lot of transitions and changes have taken place and the globalization phase blooms in this modern era. Globalization can be divided into 3 phases that include globalization I from 1492 to 1800, globalization II from 1800 to 2000 and III from 2000 onwards, as according to Thomas L. Friedman. Currently, we are in the globalization III. The most significant transitions that have happened here is the IT’s sector and as we all know, IT stands for Information Technology. Information technology is a new type of development in the world today which can be described as the role of applications in a computers, machines, gadgets, telephones, and satellites to save, retrieve and transmit data between an intermediary device and also to manipulate the data received. We need to have a person with the capability of handling the IT branch, therefore, we need the involvement of IT professionals in the frame. An IT professional is a person who has the ability to make the people’s business...
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..._______________________________________________________ Table of Contents 1. The Development Of A Code Of Ethics: An Online Classroom Approach To Making Connections Between Ethical Foundations And The Challenges Presented By Information Technology.............................................. 14 May 2012 1 ProQuest Document 1 of 1 The Development Of A Code Of Ethics: An Online Classroom Approach To Making Connections Between Ethical Foundations And The Challenges Presented By Information Technology .. Author: Brooks, Rochelle. .. Publication info: American Journal of Business Education 3. 10 (Oct 2010): 1-13. .. ProQuest document link .. Abstract: In today's organizations, ethical challenges relate to areas like fraud, right to privacy for consumers, social responsibility, and trade restrictions. For Information Technology (IT) specifically, these can translate to considerations on how technology is used to violate people's privacy, how automation leads to job reductions, or how management information and its corresponding systems are used and abused for personal gain. In the last 25 years, people have seen an overwhelming technology infusion affecting business, education, and society. Virtually all areas of the society have been transformed by the usage of technology. The change is important from an ethical perspective in terms of who Information Technology (IT) workers are today and what their tasks are. Higher education, specifically in business...
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