Join us for the next DM Talk on Monday as Prof. Wong, Richmond Y discusses two of his projects at the intersection of ethics, AI, design and larger organizational and social contexts.

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Design is a social and cultural practice (as well as a technical one). Developing ethical systems requires more than creating technical ethical design tools for individual designers; it also requires consideration of social and cultural infrastructures that can help support designers when making decisions with ethical impacts. These infrastructures may include new organizational practices, law and policy, supporting worker and community-led actions, or developing tools that consider the social and organizational contexts where technologies are developed.

In this talk I will present on projects that investigate two possible areas to develop ethics infrastructures: how “AI ethics” toolkits imagine the work of doing ethics with artificial intelligence systems; and how organizations have rhetorically represented data privacy laws as forms of business risks. Through these examples I will discuss what HCI and design can learn from looking at these practices, and suggest new opportunities for design.