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# Tech Ethics

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# Awesome Tech Ethics [![Awesome](https://awesome.re/badge-flat.svg)](https://awesome.re)

Reducing the potential negative effects of technology on society.

## Contents

- [Toolkits](#toolkits)
- [Media](#media)
- [Education](#education)
- [Organisations](#organisations)
- [Company-specific](#company-specific)
- [See also](#see-also)

## Toolkits

- [Consequence Scanning](https://www.tech-transformed.com/product-development/) - A new agile event that fits into an iterative development cadence. A way to think about the potential impact of a product or service on people and society early on in the development cycle.
- [Children & AI Design Code](https://5rightsfoundation.com/resource/children-ai-design-code/) - a process to identify, evaluate, and mitigate the known risks of AI to children and prepare for the known unknowns. The 5rights Foundation have also published [Tick to Agree – Age appropriate presentation of published terms](https://5rightsfoundation.com/resource/tick-to-agree-age-appropriate-presentation-of-published-terms/).
- [IDEO's AI ethics cards](https://page.ideo.com/download-ai-ethics-cards) - Activities to "help guide an ethically responsible, culturally considerate, and humanistic approach to designing with data."
- [Permacomputing design principles](https://permacomputing.net/Principles/) - [Permacomputing](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/miscellaneous/permacomputing) is both a concept and a community of practice oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology inspired by permaculture.

- [Manifesto for a Humane Web](https://humanewebmanifesto.com/) - "A personal response to the current state of the web \[...\] a statement of intent and a call to arms, inviting you, the reader, to go forth and build humane websites, and to resist the erosion of the web we know and love."

- [The ResponsibleTech.Work framework](https://responsibletech.work) - An open-source framework developed by tech workers for tech workers. It equips tech workers with practical tools for more responsible product development.
- [Spotify Ethics Guild's ethics assessment](https://spotify.design/article/investigating-consequences-with-our-ethics-assessment) - A tool for identifying ethical considerations when designing a product or service.
- [Sweet summer child score](https://summerchild.dev/) - An interactive quiz to identify the possibility of harm to people and [communities](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/work/communities) by a socio-technical system.
- [Tethix Elemental Sparks](https://tethix.co/paper-sparks/) - Printouts for origami [chatterboxes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_fortune_teller) to spark conversations about AI, data, fairness, and other sociotechnical challenges.
- [The Tarot Cards of Tech](https://tarotcardsoftech.artefactgroup.com/) - A set of questions designed to help creators more fully consider the impact of technology.

## Media

- [Tech Won't Save Us podcast](https://www.techwontsave.us) - Tech Won't Save Us challenges the notion that tech alone can drive our world forward by showing that tech is inherently political and ignoring that has serious consequences. It encourages listeners to think about how we can [move](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/programming-languages/move) beyond oppressive tech and towards tech for genuine public good.
- [Revolution.Social podcast](https://revolution.social) - A podcast about the future of social media built on permissionless open protocols, hosted by Twitter's first employee, Rabble a.k.a. Evan Henshaw-Plath. Hear what's possible when social platforms and content are no longer owned by corporations.
- [Ethics and [Data Science](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/programming-languages/data-science) report](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/ethics-and-data/9781492043898/), Mike Loukides, Hilary Mason, and DJ Patil - Practical ways for making ethical data [standards](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/miscellaneous/standards) part of your work every day. Available to [read online for free](https://resources.oreilly.com/examples/0636920203964/).
- [Machine Ethics Podcast](https://www.machine-ethics.net) - Conversations on AI Ethics: Interrogating technology, [artificial intelligence](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/theory/artificial-intelligence) and society.

## Education

- [Ethics, Technology + Public Policy for Practitioners](https://online.stanford.edu/courses/soe-xetech0001-ethics-technology-public-policy-practitioners) - An online course from Stanford University covering the ethical and social challenges that the technology sector faces throughout product and operational decision-making.

## Organisations

- [ACM SIGCAS](https://www.sigcas.org) - The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group that addresses the social and ethical consequences of widespread computer usage.
- [The Ada Lovelace Institute](https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org) - An independent research institute with a mission to ensure data and AI work for people and society.
- [The Algorithmic Justice League](https://www.ajl.org) - AJL raises awareness about the impacts of AI, undertakes empirical research, strengthens the most impacted [communities](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/work/communities), and galvanizes researchers, policy makers, and industry practitioners to mitigate AI harms and biases.
- [All Tech Is Human](https://alltechishuman.org/) - Bringing together people, organizations, and ideas to tackle wicked tech & society issues and co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest.
- [Center for Humane Technology](https://www.humanetech.com/) - Envisioning a world with technology that respects our attention, improves our well-being, and strengthens [communities](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/work/communities).
- [The Design Justice Network](https://designjustice.org/) - A home for people who are committed to embodying and practicing the [Design Justice Network Principles](https://designjustice.org/principles).
- [The Distributed AI Research Institute](https://www.dair-institute.org/) - The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech's pervasive influence.
- [Foxglove](https://www.foxglove.org.uk) - We stand up to tech giants and governments and for a future where technology is used to benefit everyone, not just the rich and powerful.
- [The Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy](https://www.mctd.ac.uk) - An independent team of researchers at the University of Cambridge who are radically rethinking the power relationships between digital technologies, society, and our planet.
- [Omidyar Network: Responsible Technology](http://omidyar.com/responsible-technology-2/) - Social change venture that reimagines critical systems, and the ideas that govern them, to build more inclusive and equitable societies. Responsible technology is one of its three key focus areas.
- [Organization for Ethical Source](https://ethicalsource.dev) - Develops tools and [standards](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/miscellaneous/standards) to promote fair, ethical, and equitable outcomes for everyone who contributes to, benefits from, or is impacted by open source technologies.
- [Tethix](https://tethix.co) - "Tech ethics that makes you smile".

## Company-specific

- [Amazon Employees for Climate Justice](https://www.amazonclimatejustice.org) - Amazon employees applying pressure on Amazon to redefine what it means to be a responsible company in the era of the climate crisis.
- [No Tech For Apartheid](https://www.notechforapartheid.com) - a worker-led campaign of Google and Amazon workers organizing against the companies' $1B Project Nimbus cloud computing contract with the Israeli government and military (see also [No Azure for Apartheid](https://noazureforapartheid.com)).
- [No Tech for ICE](https://notechforice.com) - fighting against the tech corporations fueling ICE disappearances, raids and the growing surveillance state.
