Ethics of everyday tech
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Why must ethical guidelines be continually reassessed?
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Because they were written for the technology that existed at the time. Something genuinely new does not break the old rules — it sits outside them, doing something nobody thought to allow or forbid.
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What four lenses can you apply to any new technology?
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Individual rights: can a person refuse, and appeal? Privacy: what is collected, and did bystanders agree? Equity: who is left out or served worse? Society: what changes when everyone has it?
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What is the ethical concern with quantum computing?
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It would eventually break much of today's encryption. Because encrypted data can be stolen and stored now and decrypted later, the risk begins before the machines exist — so organisations need quantum-resistant encryption already.
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Why is augmented reality a greater privacy concern than a fixed camera?
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The glasses go everywhere the wearer goes, recording everyone they meet without any consent, and they can also alter what the wearer sees — which raises the question of who chooses that.
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Why is pervasive AI a concern even when each individual system is defensible?
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Because of the accumulation. When jobs, loans, healthcare and policing all involve models, large parts of a person's life are decided by systems they cannot see, question or appeal against.
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