OCR H446 1.5.2: Moral and ethical Issues
The free BugBot lesson that teach this point, a robot to try it on, and the past-paper questions that test it.
What it covers
At GCSE you described the impacts of technology and audited a training set for bias (F12.1 and F12.7). At A level the questions are longer and harder: you are given a situation, often one that does not exist yet, and asked to discuss the issues it raises and reach a judgement. This lesson gives you the issues the specifications name, a way to structure a discussion, and a case study: an autonomous robot that makes decisions about people.
- Why computer scientists carry responsibility
- The words in the question
- The issues the specifications name
- Case study: the autonomous delivery robot
- Structuring a discussion
Or do it in the simulator, with tasks that mark themselves
Lessons that teach it
- A14.8 Moral, ethical, social and cultural issues Software development, law and ethics
Automated decisions, AI, surveillance, personal data at scale, censorship, piracy, the environment and accessibility, with an autonomous…
Try it on a robot
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