Ethical dilemma scenarios and emerging technologies

• Autores: David Wright, Rachel Finn, Raphael Gellert, Serge Gutwirth, Philip Schütz
• Localización: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, ISSN-e 1873-5509, Vol. 87, Nº. 1, 2014, págs. 325-336
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper posits that ethical dilemma scenarios are a useful instrument to provoke policy-makers and other stakeholders, to including industry, in considering the privacy, ethical, social and other implications of new and emerging technologies. It describes a methodology for constructing and deconstructing such scenarios and provides four such scenarios in an orthogonal relationship with each other. The paper describes some different, but closely related scenario construction�deconstruction methodologies, which formed the basis for the methodology adopted in the European Commission-funded PRESCIENT project. The paper makes the point that in ethical dilemma scenarios, it is not immediately apparent what choices policy-makers should select. Hence, there is a need for undertaking a privacy and ethical impact assessment and engaging stakeholders in the process to identify and discuss the issues raised in the scenarios.