We propose a "Moral Imagination" methodology to facilitate a culture of responsible innovation for engineering and product teams in technology companies. Our approach has been operationalized over the past two years at Google, where we have conducted over 50 workshops with teams across the organization. We argue that our approach is a crucial complement to existing formal and informal initiatives for fostering a culture of ethical awareness, deliberation, and decision-making in technology design such as company principles, ethics and privacy review procedures, and compliance controls. We characterize some of the distinctive benefits of our methodology for the technology sector in particular.
翻译:我们提出了一种“道德想象力”方法论,以促进科技公司工程与产品团队中负责任创新文化的形成。过去两年间,该方法已在谷歌实战化运营,并面向公司内部各个团队开展了超过50场工作坊。我们认为,该方法是对现有正式与非正式举措的关键补充——这些举措旨在培养技术设计中的伦理意识、审慎思考与决策制定文化,例如企业原则、伦理与隐私审查流程以及合规管控机制。我们还特别阐释了该方法论对科技行业所带来的一系列独特优势。