Ethical Implications of the Adoption of Facial Recognition Technology
Teaching Materials
The objective of this activity is to introduce the role of ethics and social responsibility in technology and computing via a role-playing exercise that demonstrates to college students how new technology could impact the society. In this case, the role-playing activity simulates a city hall discuss
Overview
The goal of the role-playing activity is three-fold: to get students (a) to consider the ethical values of the decision-makers involved, (b) to reflect on how those values inform the decision-making of the various individual involved, and (c) to have students arrive at a decision collectively about whether or not they would recommend the adoption of facial recognition technology if they were in the assumed roles.
