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 40 workshops with teams from 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 distinctive benefits of our methodology for the technology sector in particular.
翻译:我们提出一种“道德想象”方法,以促进科技公司工程与产品团队的负责任创新文化。过去两年间,我们在谷歌将该方法付诸实践,与来自组织各团队的成员共同开展了超过40场工作坊。我们主张,这一方法是现有正式与非正式举措(如公司原则、伦理与隐私审查程序以及合规管控)的关键补充,旨在培养技术设计中的伦理意识、审慎讨论与决策文化。我们特别阐述了该方法对科技行业的一些独特益处。