Impacts of Tech 2 (Ethics and morals)

• Computing
• Lower Secondary (Key Stage 3)

Impacts of Tech 2

Ethics and morals

What are some characteristics that are important to you?
EG: loyalty, Honest.
Why?

How does technology impact us?

In this lesson, you will:

Strengthening: Define the difference between ethics and morals

Excelling: Analyse how different technologies are impacted by individuals ethics and morals. 

Impacts 

There are a range of ways that technology can impact our daily lives.

Morals 

An individuals belief in something being right or wrong. 

These can vary from person: depending on their beliefs, who influenced them and many other factors.

Ethics

Ethics focus on laws that define if something is right or wrong. 

A group of people morals form ethics and laws that exist for that group of pople

MORAL

ETHIC

Loyalty to friends 

Being generous

Theft 

Patient 

Fraud 

Honestly 

Murder 

Assault 

Moral impacts of different technologies

People can have ranging opinions of new technologies and how they will impact people's day to day lives. 

One example is driverless cars and how they can impact the driver, passenger or people on the street.

Driverless cars 

Driverless cars are becoming more and more common in major cities across the US.

Plans have been created to introduce driverless taxi's in London as soon as next year. 

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Play to around 3.26

Artificial intelligence applied (AI)

The Moral Machine is an international research project by the MIT Media Lab that collects data from people to understand how our collective ethics could inform the AI of driverless cars.

• Specifically, they want to learn how to make machines moral.
  

The Moral Machine

You will be presented with 13 driverless cars scenarios to judge and will discover at the end how your judgements relate to the other people who have taken part internationally.

Moral Machine
 

While student try out the different scenarios, it would be advisable to circulate and engage in conversations about their decision-making. If any learners finish early, they could create their own challenging scenario.

Moral machine

Each of the Moral Machine scenarios is based on the premise that the brakes fail on a driverless car. 

• You have to make a moral decision about whether the car should be programmed to continue on a course and cause death to the individuals in the path of the car, or divert to cause death either to the individuals in the car or individuals in another location.
  

Explain your thoughts on driverless cars:
Are they ethical if they put people in danger?
Who should be prioritized the owner or the public?
Should we allow machines to decide who lives and dies?

What is ethics the study of?

1. Right or wrongs for a society.
2. Right and wrongs for an individual
3. A person's belief of right and wrong.
4. Which beliefs might be outdated.

Who is in control of a driverless car?

1. Humans
2. AI
3. The owner
4. The company

Step 1: Choose one of the following pieces of technology.

• Ai facial recognition CCTV

• Use of AI and robots in medical care.

Step 2: Create a guide to answer the following questions. 

1. Introduce what the technology is.

2.What are the positives of the tech?

3. What are the negatives of the tech?

Powerpoint

CCTV help

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AI medicine help

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