TDDE32 Professionalism in Computer Science

Course information

Lecture 6: Contextualized responsibility, 2h

This lecture/seminar focuses on "ethical dilemmas" and value conflicts, how value conflicts can be disclosed, analysed and resolved in a principled manner. It offers principles and methods for balancing competing interests and values in connection with ICT, sustainability and risk in a global society. When identifying stakeholders, the importance of including distant others and future stakeholders in the analysis is highlighted.

Preparations:

Students prepare themselves for this lecture by reading the course literature in advance.

• Gotterbarn, Don, and Simon Rogerson. "Responsible risk assessment with software development: creating the software development impact statement." Communications of the Association for Information Systems 15.1 (2005): 40.
• Gotterbarn, Don, Tony Clear, and Choon-Tuck Kwan. "A practical mechanism for ethical risk assessment - A SODIS Inspection" The handbook of information and computer ethics (2008): 429.
• European Union Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI

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