Beyond Principles: A Process for Responsible Tech

Dorian Peters
The Ethics of Digital Experience
6 min readMay 2, 2019

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Meet the new design process: An upgrade with ethics & digital wellbeing baked in.

In the frenzied quest to keep a moral handle on AI, dozens of groups have organized the collaborative creation of ethical principles. From the Asilomar AI Principles to the IEEEs Ethically-aligned design specification, to the individual efforts of companies like Google and Microsoft to set their philosophical leanings onto paper. We are awash in principles.

While principles are essential, many tech makers are frustrated by how little help…

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Dorian Peters
The Ethics of Digital Experience

Tech designer, researcher, author — design for wellbeing & ethical tech — Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge