Ep.12 - The ethics of invention

The Corporate Innovation Podcast

Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science & Technology studies at Harvard Kennedy School and author of “The Ethics of Invention”, in conversation with Kris Østergaard, on ethics in a technologically accelerating world, how to mitigate unintended consequences of one's innovations and the danger of technological determinism.
Host: https://krisoestergaard.com/
Guest: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/sheila-jasanoff
SingularityU Nordic: https://sunordic.org/
Singularity University: https://su.org/

فصول

1. Ep.12 - The ethics of invention (00:00:00)

2. Introduction to Sheila’s academic & professional journey (00:02:09)

3. What is ethics and what makes something ethical? (00:05:48)

4. What is technological determinism? (00:11:09)

5. Unintended consequences and their role (00:20:40)

6. How to move an organization ethically into the future? (00:28:11)

7. Creating winners and losers during invention (00:32:27)

8. Entrepreneurs taking responsibility for their inventions, Y/N? (00:43:33)

9. Who gets to decide for the public good? (00:48:20)