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The following text was used as the basis for the podcast “Deep Dive into the Ethics by Design”. We used it as prompts for the AI tool NotebookLM to generate the podcast. The output was carefully edited by us to eliminate strange sounding sections, wrong information and other querks to ensure that you actually get a good introduction to Ethics by Design.

3. What is Ethics?

Many people think ethic is just about opinion, or a checklist. But it is actually a rigorous inquiry. Ethics is the study of right and wrong, of moral values and principles that guide human behaviour. It's about asking important questions: What’s fair? What’s just? What’s good for society? In the context of technology, ethics ensures that the tools and systems we create align with values like fairness, transparency, and responsibility. As technology advances, these questions become more crucial, since its impact reaches deep into our daily lives.  Dr Andrew Graham, member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Ethics in Technology, political economist and the former Master of Balliol College, Oxford, Senior Fellow and Founder of the Oxford Internet Institute, emphasises the importance of this field. ‘We need to ask, why are we really doing this? These 'why' questions are important, and once you go back to the 'why,' you’re delving into ethics. As a society, we ought to talk more about the 'whys' of life—what we care about. Ethics and politics are the domains where those discussions should take place.’