ITM 407 Chapter : Week 11 Software Ethically Neutral.docx
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Increased knowledge means you have the ability to make something. Know about possible effects of things you design. Also, this means people rely on you. Therac-25, people that use it are sick. Need to be conscious on the strain health wise that the machine would make on a person"s life. We all have unintentional power when actions have unintentional consequences. Intent doesn"t matter: designers removed from actual situation, don"t know all the risks and how things work. Brey"s three levels of ethical issues in cyber tech. First: disclose embedded features that have a moral importance. Second: test these features against standard ethical theories. Third: apply standard or newly revised ethical theories to the issues. Value sensitive design: framework that takes into consideration values of not only direct stakeholders, but the values of indirect stakeholders as well. See groups of direct and indirect stakeholders of a project , list values for each group. Value is principle or values in life.