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Software and Fairness: The need for Ethics Engineering
Technology has become a cornerstone of most people’s lives, and its pervasiveness has many looking now at the ways it both positively and negatively affects our lives.
While the positives of new technology are many, the negatives need to be considered too. Software and digital platforms are often found to be biased or inadequately architected to fend off abuse.
Increasingly, ethics groups are warning of software and digital platforms that can be abused by promoting false information and by improperly using personal private data.
Matthew Rosenquist, Cybersecurity Strategist and Industry Advisor, wrote that “systems designed or employed without sufficient ethical standards can do tremendous harm, intentionally or unintentionally, at an individual and global scale.”
Arnal Dayaratna, research director at IDC, wrote that “contemporary software requires ethical deliberation and validation as part of the testing and QA process. This need for ethical validation has always been important for software applications, but the proliferation and ubiquity of contemporary software require a deeper level of ethical evaluation and analysis. Software is so interwoven into the fabric of our existence—in wearables, mobile devices, automobiles, digital assistants, consumer applications and enterprise applications—that a reflection on the ethics of software is critical to the software development lifecycle.”
