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Tag: Ethics
Google’s Project Maven for the Department of Defense
Google is presently working on an artificial intelligence drone project. The International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC) has sent an open letter to Google urging them to withdraw from Project Maven and to commit to not weaponizing it’s technology.
Considering implanting a micro-chip under your skin?
Last week, we had an ethics discussion in my Accounting II class about the rise of technology. While the discussion was primarily focused on MotoBot as representing the threat of the rise of robots and artificial intelligence that is designed to exceed human performance, we also discussed micro-chipping people and what incentives could be used, or misused, to encourage people to be micro-chipped. Aside from Christian religious arguments (Revelations 13) against micro-chipping people, there are numerous ethical obstacles that anyone contemplating this procedure should consider.
Click here for the Business Insider article on micro-chipping people.
An Ethical Dilemma–Do Not Resuscitate
Though not a strict Accounting or Business ethical dilemma, an unconscious patient was brought into the emergency room with "Do Not Resuscitate" and his signature tattooed across his chest. What is the ethical thing to do? What would you do? How is this related to business and accounting? Risk management, mostly.
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