Ethics & Responsible Technology

Define a change to a product or process that can be compared with alternatives.

Identify people beyond the purchaser or immediate user.

Trace acquisition, use, maintenance and disposal in a familiar device.

Compare a new feature with simpler changes and the existing process.

Distinguish value judgements, feasibility evidence and applicable requirements.

Label measured effects, predictions and untested assumptions in a case.

Explain why a factual observation alone does not select a value priority.

Describe potential harm without conflating uncertainty with absence of risk.

Match sources to the affected population, task and proposed use.

Identify a feasible observation that could revise the preferred option.

Compare expected benefits and harms while showing assumptions and distribution.

Identify obligations that limit how a desired outcome may be pursued.

Ask who benefits, who bears costs and who can contest a decision.

Examine responsibilities arising from vulnerability and ongoing relationships.

Connect honesty, competence and restraint to specific professional actions.

State the source of disagreement instead of hiding it in a score.

Include people affected by data collection, infrastructure and downstream use.

Use questions and examples to distinguish inferred needs from expressed needs.

Inspect who can participate, refuse or influence the design decision.

Look for design changes that reduce a tension before choosing a trade-off.

Check whether assumptions about consent and usefulness fit a new context.

Use the same criteria for each option and identify unsupported assumptions.

Explain an opposing reason accurately before responding to it.

State what must change for an option to become acceptable.

Assign checks and define evidence that would reopen the decision.

Present reasons and remaining uncertainty in language people can inspect.

Record required fields, access barriers and assumed reasons for collection.

Compare fewer fields, optional choices and alternative access paths.

Check understanding and usability with people having different needs.

Change the design and record which reason or observation justified it.

Inspect actual outcomes and independently evaluate a new form with different constraints.