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To Speak out or Remain Silent? Tech Ethics Still Roils Industry

Brian Green, director, technology ethics, quoted by San Francisco Examiner.

Employees facing unethical business practices, contemplate if they should speak out or remain silent and the costs of those actions.

Employees regularly encounter complex ethical issues related to big data, computer privacy, artificial intelligence and other issues where the rules often haven’t been established, says Brian Green of Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.

Employees on the forefront of new technologies should not face ethical issues alone, Green says. Companies must build into new technologies the capacity to identify, point out and process ethical issues. “If a company doesn't have those things yet, then there's a question of how do you bring it up?” Green says.

Brian Green, director, technology ethics, quoted by San Francisco Examiner.

 

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