TY - JOUR
T1 - Toward a code of conduct for technology ethics practitioners
AU - Vermaas, Pieter
AU - Ammon, Sabine
AU - Mehnert, Wenzel
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - This paper explores possibilities for creating a code of conduct for practitioners working in technology ethics. The number of technology ethics practitioners is growing when including ethicists embedded in research projects on technology, members of research ethics committees who assess the consequences of technological research, ethicists advising companies, and facilitators in moral/societal exploration through workshops, games, and brainstorm sessions. And, it is not just assessment what technology ethics practitioners do, but increasingly also the guidance of technology development through processes like responsible research and innovation, ethics by design, and design for values. Our exploratory is initial, and this paper may be seen as a position paper. It focusses on preliminary issues such as identifying the types of ethics practitioners the code can be for, the roles the code can play for these practitioners, charting controversies it should address, and the (institutional) arrangements needed for making a code effective.
AB - This paper explores possibilities for creating a code of conduct for practitioners working in technology ethics. The number of technology ethics practitioners is growing when including ethicists embedded in research projects on technology, members of research ethics committees who assess the consequences of technological research, ethicists advising companies, and facilitators in moral/societal exploration through workshops, games, and brainstorm sessions. And, it is not just assessment what technology ethics practitioners do, but increasingly also the guidance of technology development through processes like responsible research and innovation, ethics by design, and design for values. Our exploratory is initial, and this paper may be seen as a position paper. It focusses on preliminary issues such as identifying the types of ethics practitioners the code can be for, the roles the code can play for these practitioners, charting controversies it should address, and the (institutional) arrangements needed for making a code effective.
KW - code of conduct
KW - Ethics
KW - integrating ethics
KW - practitioners
KW - technology ethics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85212778354&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/23299460.2024.2440958
DO - 10.1080/23299460.2024.2440958
M3 - Comment/Letter to the editor
AN - SCOPUS:85212778354
SN - 2329-9460
VL - 12
JO - Journal of Responsible Innovation
JF - Journal of Responsible Innovation
IS - 1
M1 - 2440958
ER -