Amanda McCroskery
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Responsible Innovation, Moral Imagination, and Epistemic Trust: A Practitioner Perspective
Susan Rubin
Carmen Bush
Geoff Keeling
Ben Zevenbergen
Benjamin Lange
Currently under review - Journal of Responsible Innovation (2025) (to appear)
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This paper is a practitioner's account of Google's Moral Imagination Program for responsible innovation. Elements of the methodology have previously been externalised, e.g
Lange, B., Keeling, G., McCroskery, A., Zevenbergen, B., Blascovich, S., Pedersen, K., ... & Agüera y Arcas, B. (2023). Engaging engineering teams through moral imagination: a bottom-up approach for responsible innovation and ethical culture change in technology companies. AI and Ethics, 1-10. (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43681-023-00381-7)
Keeling, G., Lange, B., McCroskery, A., Pedersen, K., Weinberger, D., & Zevenbergen, B. (2024). Moral Imagination for Engineering Teams: The Technomoral Scenario. The International Review of Information Ethics, 34(1).(https://informationethics.ca/index.php/irie/article/view/527)
This paper builds on that prior work, intending to help practitioners at other tech companies create their own initiatives that draw broadly on the same ideas.
Abstract: Integrating ethical considerations into technology development can be difficult. It requires an approach that challenges pervasive engineering paradigms and incorporates social non-technical values. We argue that effective ethics interventions in technology development require epistemic trust in the intervening discipline, the facilitator(s), and the content. We base this on our experience in developing, implementing, and iterating the Moral Imagination programme at Google through 70 workshops over four years with a wide variety of teams. We detail best-practices of the moral imagination methodology and how they are conducive toward promoting epistemic trust support. The aim of our discussion is to inform ongoing responsible innovation research alongside professional practice by providing a practitioner’s perspective from the ground.
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