SESSION + Live Q&A
Responsibly Smashing Pandora’s Box
The ethical and technological landscape we live in is moving faster than ever before, and our ethical intuitions are woefully ill-equipped to cope with the changes. As tech innovators, we are part of the force driving this acceleration, but as residents of the world, we are also the ones facing the consequences. What is the right balance of risk and reward when it comes to innovation? How do we proceed when the ethical impact of our creations is uncertain? Can we ensure that new technology is used for good?
This session takes a philosophical look at to our own, personal roles in this shifting world, drawing from history, cognitive science, thought experiments and real world evidence to answer the question: "what are our ethical responsibilities as tech innovators today?"
Speaker
Yanqing Cheng
Software Development Manager @metaswitch
Yanqing Cheng is a software development manager at Metaswitch, where she works on high-scale networking systems software. Networking technology is an exciting mix of forward-looking ideas with decades-old protocols, which provide insights into the constant balancing act between innovation...
Read moreFind Yanqing Cheng at:
Location
St James, 4th flr.
Track
Topics
Tech EthicsLondonSlides
Slides are not available
Share
From the same track
Tech Ethics in Action Panel
More details coming soon
Theo Schlossnagle
Founder and CEO @Circonus, Editorial board of ACM's ‘Queue’
Alexander Steinhart
Psychologist, Technologist @ThoughtWorks
Yanqing Cheng
Software Development Manager @metaswitch
Tim Kadlec
Performance consultant and trainer
Jenny Mulholland
Woman in tech @softwireuk
Anne Currie
Chief Strategist @containersoluti (Container Solutions)
Gareth Rushgrove
Product Manager @Docker
Kavita Kapoor
Ethical Tech - A Psychologist's Perspective
This talk explores the digital revolution from a psychological perspective, with scientific research on human needs and biases in mind, it takes a look at the thin line between taking advantage of an understanding of psychology and exploiting it and at emerging, alternative design and technology...
Alexander Steinhart
Psychologist, Technologist @ThoughtWorks
A Young Profession Coping With Ethical Debt
The concept of professional ethics is not new to the world, but it is fairly new to computing because computing itself is so new. Ethics and its requirement as a part of professionalism started with monks and quickly embraced the three occupations of importance: religious service, law, and...
Theo Schlossnagle
Founder and CEO @Circonus, Editorial board of ACM's ‘Queue’
Focusing On What Matters
We work and live in a bubble. Our limited perspective of what it means to use technology influences the way we build, the tools we use, and the tasks we prioritize. In the process, we risk losing the most powerful thing about the internet: its ubiquity. It's critically important that we broaden...
Tim Kadlec
Performance consultant and trainer