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Professional Development Assignment - Ethics Assessment
Task - Chat Bots: merging the digital and physical worlds
Overview - The purpose of this task is to encourage students to explore a variety of ethical theories and apply them to a contemporary ethical issue in an area of social computing.
Assessment Details -
Background -
HBO's popular Westworld series has introduced a recurring response about chatbot ethics to those questioning who's real and who's a robot in the near future: "If you have to ask, does it matter?"
If the response to Google Duplex is something to go by, the answer is a resounding yes. Shortly after Google made their impressive demo of the product, tech professionals and everyday people alike expressed worry about the AI's failure to disclose that it wasn't a human.
Not only did Google withhold the fact that it was a bot to the person on the other line. The primary issue was that the AI was deceptive by using speech disfluencies like "hmm" and "um" to appear human. A reality in which humans and bots are indistinguishable is a common theme of dystopian sci-fi flicks. That clearly isn't an issue that people want to wrestle with in their daily lives. Duplex's reveal-and Google's quick response to promise the bot will disclose its status as an AI-is a high-profile case study in the messy ethical questions that come with the development of AI that other businesses should learn from.
Chatbots offer opportunities to enhance business efficiencies and service effectiveness, and also to improve quality of life, indirectly and directly. However, numerous ethical, social and legal issues arise from the use of these technologies will increase as they become more prevalent.
Requirements - Students are required to undertake an ethical analysis of issues associated with chatbot uses and further consider the issues from a software developer, business or government context. Students will prepare a business style report of approximately 2000 words, which analyses companion through the lens of each of the FOUR (4) ethical philosophies presented in lectures, and ONE (1) element selected from the Australian Computer Society's (ACS) code of ethics.
When analysing chatbots, consider ONE (1) of the following ethical questions:
- What are the implications of a growing trend of interconnectivity for security and safety?
- What are the potential implications of chatbot for notions of privacy and personal relationships?
- What are the potential implications of chatbot for intellectual property rights?
- Do perceived societal costs outweigh benefits associated with chatbots implementation?
- Another issue to be approved by course lecturer and/or tutor.
A suggested report structure is as follows.
Title page
Executive summary
Table of contents
Introduction
Ethical analysis of companion robots
- utilitarianism
- deontology
- social contract
- character based
- ACS code of ethics
Conclusion
References
Appendices.
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