1.2.16 Discuss the moral, ethical, social, economic and environmental implications of the interaction between humans and machines.
concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character.
a person's standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what is and is not acceptable for them to do.
A moral person wants to do the right thing, and a moral impulse usually means best intentions.
conforming to accepted standards of conduct
a guiding philosophy
An ethical code doesn’t have to be moral. It’s just a set of rules for people to follow. Several professional organizations (like the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association) have created specific ethical codes for their respective fields.
In other words, an ethical code has nothing to do with cosmic righteousness or a set of beliefs. It’s a set of rules that are drafted by trade groups to ensure members stay out of trouble and act in a way that brings credit to the profession.
An employee leaving the workplace before the required work time is over is not morally wrong, but could be ethically unacceptable
Describe an instance of using or interacting with technology that is:
ethical but immoral?
not ethical but within your personal moral bounds?
Artificial intelligence - intelligence exhibited by machines. In computer science, an ideal "intelligent" machine is a flexible rational agent that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of success at some goal
Industrial automation - the use of control systems, such as computers or robots, and information technologies for handling different processes and machineries in an industry to replace a human being. It is the second step beyond mechanization in the scope of industrialization
Robotic surgery, or robot-assisted surgery, allows doctors to perform many types of complex procedures with more precision, flexibility and control than is possible with conventional techniques. Robotic surgery is usually associated with minimally invasive surgery — procedures performed through tiny incisions.