Showing posts with label expedient decision-making over ethical decision-making. Show all posts
Showing posts with label expedient decision-making over ethical decision-making. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg And The Tech World Still Do Not Understand Ethics; Forbes, March 11, 2019

Derek Lidow, Forbes;

Mark Zuckerberg And The Tech World Still Do Not Understand Ethics

 

"Why the widespread blindness to the ethical and social dangers of tech startups specifically? Here are five of the principal causes: 

Tech startups see themselves as saviors of the world...

Complex technology and tech business models deflect investor due diligence...

Expectations for technology startups encourage expedient, not ethical, decision making...

We’ve fetishized disruption...

Tech promises founders and investors vast—vast—amounts of money."