Is there any such thing as ethical technology? - Nick Cater

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Nick Cater has just been appointed Executive Director of the Menzies Research Centre. The notion of “ethical technology” is relatively new, yet already it has found its way onto the national curriculum.

Should some lines of scientific inquiry or technological application be ruled out because of their potential to harm? Or is this an example of a conditional view of science, at odds with the spirit of inquiry and spirit of progress unleashed by the Enlightenment?

Should we instead be arguing that it is the way in which technology is used that requires ethical judgments to be made by humans, and that science itself is value neutral?

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