Productive discussions have a shared vocabulary. Animated, 2-min. videos define key ethics terms and concepts. Provide common ground for enlightened conversation in the realm of ethics and leadership. #EducateYourself
AI ethics focuses on ensuring that AI is developed and deployed responsibly, promoting fairness, transparency, accountability, and societal well-being while minimizing harm.
Artificial intelligence (AI) describes machines that can think and learn like human beings. AI is continually evolving, and includes subfields such as machine learning and generative AI.
Diffusion of Responsibility occurs when people fail to take action because they assume that since others nearby are not acting, action is not appropriate.
The Fundamental Attribution Error is the tendency people have to attribute others’ actions to their character, ignoring the impact that situational factors might have on that behavior.
The halo effect is a cognitive bias where a positive impression of one trait of a person or company leads us to assume all their other traits are also positive.
The In-group/Out-group phenomenon describes the fact that we tend to judge and treat people who are like us more favorably than people who are different from us.
Loss Aversion is the tendency people have to dislike losses more than they enjoy gains, which can lead people to lie in order to avoid the consequences of innocent (or other) mistakes.
Moral Emotions are the feelings and intuitions–including shame, disgust, and empathy–that play a major role in most of the ethical judgments and decisions people make.
Motivated blindness describes the often-unconscious tendency we have to fail to notice the wrongdoing of others when noticing it would be inconsistent with our own self-interest.
Obedience to Authority is the tendency people have to try to comply with superiors’ wishes, even when to do so conflicts with their own moral judgment.
The optimism bias can lead us to neglect responsible actions and moral accountability by overestimating positive outcomes and underestimating negative ones.
The Overconfidence Bias is the tendency people have to be more confident in their own abilities, including making moral judgments, than objective facts would justify.
The Self-Serving Bias is the tendency people have to process information in ways that advance their own self-interest or support their pre-existing views.
Social Contract Theory is the idea that society exists because of an implicitly agreed-to set of standards that provide moral and political rules of behavior.
Sustainability is living to meet the needs of the present generation without depleting the resources that future generations will need to meet their needs.
The Tangible & Abstract describes how people may make moral errors by focusing too much on immediate factors that are close in time and geography and too little on more abstract factors that are removed in time and place.
Technological somnambulism refers to the unreflective, blind creation and adoption of new technologies without consideration for their long-term societal and ethical impacts.
The Tragedy of the Commons describes a situation where a shared resource is exploited – because of individual self-interest – and damages overall social welfare.
The Veil of Ignorance is a device for helping people more fairly envision a fair society by pretending that they are ignorant of their personal circumstances.
