Scenario: The head of a film studio has been told that the lead actor on their next blockbuster has fallen ill and can not finish the film. They can use Depp Fakes to finish the actors part but if people find out they might not see the film. Dilemma: The Studio head must decide to let the public know or not if they go ahead and use Deep Fakes to finish the film.
Project – Analysis Format
Citation Note: If you utilize materials you’ve found, be sure use inline citations (e.g.,
[1] or superscriipts1) at the appropriate places within your statement and analysis
sections that refer to the references in a bibliography.
Statement Section
Describe your Current Events scenario, giving any necessary background on your
current events topic. This section should be at least two full paragraphs.
1. Present and explain your scenario in enough detail so the rest of the analysis is
clear. Include any additional information necessary for understanding the rest of
your analysis (including, if necessary, any background information regarding your
current events topic). You may modify and use appropriate text from your midterm.
2. Present the ethical dilemma
3. Let the reader know why your topic is an important topic to the Computing field.
4. Clearly state the ethical issue(s) that arise in your scenario.
Analysis Sections
Format: As you know, an ethical analysis includes the following 8-9 sections. Write
each section separately, marked with its own section title. You must include your
Scenario and Ethical Dilemma in the beginning of the document.
Unique Analysis: Everyone’s analysis will be different. Your scenario will lead you to
identify its particular moral agents, stakeholder, courses of action and consequences.
You will uniquely apply the ethical theories to your scenario and choose the most
relevant codes of ethics for it.
1. Identify the moral agents (agency).
2. What of value is at stake?
3. Who/what are the stakeholders?
4. At least 2 possible courses of action (identify at least 2).
o Start a new paragraph for each. Begin that paragraph by stating: “A possible
course of action is XXX”.
o Describe the course of action clearly enough for the reader to understand your
analysis.
o Be sure that one course of action is the action in the scenario and another
course of action is not doing the action in the scenario.
5. Consequences associated with each course of action.
o For each, state: “A(nother) consequence of the action XXX is YYY”.
6. Analyze the scenario using the 5 objective ethical theories
o You will need 5 clearly marked subsections, one for each theory (Kantianism, Act
Utilitarianism, Rule Utilitarianism, Social Contract Theory, Virtue Theory).
7. Identify and Apply any clauses in the two codes of ethics
o You will need 2 clearly marked subsections, one for the ACM Code of Ethics and
the other for the Software Engineering Code of Ethics.
o You must have a minimum of three (3) clauses from each Code of Ethics.
o Give the clause number, summarize the actual clause and then
state how and why each would apply to this situation.
o The clauses in the codes are generic enough that several codes can easily
apply.
(Warning: Do not state that no codes apply because they are software related if
your case study is not about software. There are broader principles that do
apply because your ethics scenario does concern computing and/or the design
of systems with socio-technical aspects.
8. Which concrete action do you would recommend (supported by your analysis). This
must be one of the actions proposed in number 4. Justify by clearly explaining why.
9. Bibliography: The bibliography is not part of your page count.
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