ASSIGNMENT

Assignment Instructions

For this Assignment, you will use several models and sets of questions defined in your textbook reading to analyze an ethical information technology scenario.

Choose from one of the following scenarios:

1. AI, Death, and Mourning Using a “Grief Bot”

2. Privacy, Technology, and School Shootings

3. The Vulnerability Disclosure Debate

4. The “Goodbye Fears Monster”

5. Students and Sensors: Data, education, privacy, and research

Perform your analysis using each of the methods below:

Part 1: Answer the following questions about your chosen scenario:

1. Does it preserve human dignity? Does it enhance human dignity?

2. Does it preserve the autonomy of the human?

3. Is the data collection and processing necessary and proportional?

4. Does it uphold the common good?

Part 2: For your particular technology, complete the following from the perspective of the designer or developer. (There are examples Ethical data and information management: Concepts, tools, and methods, in Chapter 10, Tables 10.4 and 10.5.)

We want to
So that we can
Which will deliver the following benefits
To the following stakeholders

Part 3: Consider the environment of your scenario from four perspectives:

1. Social (in the context of society and the organization culture)

2. Technical (Consider the technical architecture and design.)

3. Legal (Consider the legal issues that could affect the scenario.)

4. Moral (Consider the ethical and moral factors of the scenario.)

You can use a diagram similar to the one in Figure 10.6 of your textbook.

In completing the Moral factor, rely on the utility versus invasiveness matrix and discuss it in these terms.

High utility — low invasiveness (ethical risk far outweighed by the benefit to individual or society)

High utility — high invasiveness (requires additional controls to reduce invasiveness)

Low utility — high invasiveness (need invasiveness reduced and/or utility increased)

Low utility — low invasiveness (no value is being added to society or individuals)

After completing this systematic ethical assessment and risk impact, provide a synthesis of what you have learned and write a recommendation as to whether use of this technology should continue. Provide justification for your recommendation through logical argument and supporting sources. You should also provide related examples that help support your recommendation.

Assignment Requirements

1. Select and read one case study scenario.

2. Answer the four ethical questions about the scenario in Part 1.

3. Complete the form in Part 2 from the perspective of the technology designer or developer.

4. Analyze the technology from the social, technical, legal, and moral perspective in Part 3.

5. In completing the moral perspective in Part 3, use the utility versus invasiveness matrix.

6. Synthesize what was learned in Parts 1–3.

7. Recommend whether technology should be used or continue to be used.

8. Provide supporting sources and examples to justify the recommendation.

The paper should be 3–4 pages and formatted in APA style.