Ethical OS

What it does

Ethical OS is a toolkit designed to help technologists envision the potential risks and worst-case scenarios of how their technologies may be used in the future so they can anticipate issues and design and implement ethical solutions from the outset.

Civil servants, public officials, and government bureaucrats swear an oath to serve in a democratic government, committing to acting in accordance with a set of values—including integrity, honesty, objectivity, loyalty, and stewardship—intended to uphold the public interest. This Playbook is designed to bring these values into the practice of strategic foresight to focus and improve the conversations governments must have, internally and externally, regarding emerging technologies. Governments have the responsibility and authority to regulate change, mitigate risk, encourage innovation, and protect people from both the intended and unintended consequences of technosocial shifts. Governments…from iftf.org

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  The Little Book of Design Research Ethics, from IDEO2016 · ▲138

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  Ethics in Tech Tools Directory2021 · ▲8

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  Ethics Kit2019 · ethicskit.org · ▲5

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