Tooling with ethics in technology: a scoping review of responsible research and innovation tools
The operationalisation of Responsible Research and Innovation is increasingly associated with ethical toolkits. However, scholars remain critical of those toolkits, often referring to them as theoretically problematic, toothless, or too instrumental. Moreover, toolkits imply ideological commitments...
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| author | Julian “Iñaki” Goñi Eugenia Rodrigues Maria Jesus Parga Martín Illanes María José Millán |
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| description | The operationalisation of Responsible Research and Innovation is increasingly associated with ethical toolkits. However, scholars remain critical of those toolkits, often referring to them as theoretically problematic, toothless, or too instrumental. Moreover, toolkits imply ideological commitments that are not necessarily made explicit. In this scoping review, we analyse 127 tools designed for technology ethics as part of the RRI Project. We find that (1) these tools tend to frame responsibility as general training or aimed at the development phase of technologies, while monitoring is underrepresented. (2) These toolkits often lack substantive conceptualisations of ethics ignoring contested paradigms. (3) Emerging digital and biotechnologies are over-represented in relation to other socio-technical infrastructures, and (4) there is a risk of a PDF-ization of ethics, as most toolkits are materially constructed as reading material and checklists. We conclude by presenting prompt questions to reflectively reconsider how we design ethical toolkits for technology. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c2360bb47ca14b0290056a35638cb1742025-01-07T13:48:20ZengTaylor & Francis GroupJournal of Responsible Innovation2329-94602329-90372024-12-0111110.1080/23299460.2024.2360228Tooling with ethics in technology: a scoping review of responsible research and innovation toolsJulian “Iñaki” Goñi0Eugenia Rodrigues1Maria Jesus Parga2Martín Illanes3María José Millán4STIS, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UKSTIS, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UKPontificia Universidad de Chile, Santiago, ChilePontificia Universidad de Chile, Santiago, ChilePontificia Universidad de Chile, Santiago, ChileThe operationalisation of Responsible Research and Innovation is increasingly associated with ethical toolkits. However, scholars remain critical of those toolkits, often referring to them as theoretically problematic, toothless, or too instrumental. Moreover, toolkits imply ideological commitments that are not necessarily made explicit. In this scoping review, we analyse 127 tools designed for technology ethics as part of the RRI Project. We find that (1) these tools tend to frame responsibility as general training or aimed at the development phase of technologies, while monitoring is underrepresented. (2) These toolkits often lack substantive conceptualisations of ethics ignoring contested paradigms. (3) Emerging digital and biotechnologies are over-represented in relation to other socio-technical infrastructures, and (4) there is a risk of a PDF-ization of ethics, as most toolkits are materially constructed as reading material and checklists. We conclude by presenting prompt questions to reflectively reconsider how we design ethical toolkits for technology.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23299460.2024.2360228Technology ethicstoolkitethical toolsRRIscoping review |
| spellingShingle | Julian “Iñaki” Goñi Eugenia Rodrigues Maria Jesus Parga Martín Illanes María José Millán Tooling with ethics in technology: a scoping review of responsible research and innovation tools Journal of Responsible Innovation Technology ethics toolkit ethical tools RRI scoping review |
| title | Tooling with ethics in technology: a scoping review of responsible research and innovation tools |
| title_full | Tooling with ethics in technology: a scoping review of responsible research and innovation tools |
| title_fullStr | Tooling with ethics in technology: a scoping review of responsible research and innovation tools |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tooling with ethics in technology: a scoping review of responsible research and innovation tools |
| title_short | Tooling with ethics in technology: a scoping review of responsible research and innovation tools |
| title_sort | tooling with ethics in technology a scoping review of responsible research and innovation tools |
| topic | Technology ethics toolkit ethical tools RRI scoping review |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23299460.2024.2360228 |
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