(IT) Information Technology Ethics : Assignment

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“Will Automation Kill or Create Jobs?”
Automatic techniques is increasingly proliferating in this modern world of technologies.
The automation system involves robots that are used to make the cars, and the involvement of
artificial intelligence that helps in driver less vehicles (Murren & Block, 2017). The robotic
system has changed use of manual labors or workers in factories or in banks as well. System are
automatically run by artificial intelligence that has advanced software solving critical problem in
minutes (Will Automation Kill or Create Jobs?, 2018). About 5 percent of the occupation with
human involvement has been already replaced by the automation system. This leads with the
insecurity of jobs for the common people.
The most affected sector by this advancement of technologies and robotics, is the labor
section of people, the truck drivers and the taxi drivers driving vehicles, and the employees of
factories and banks. The mining industry has started the use of automatic loaders eliminating
manual workers. The vehicles are driven mostly by artificial intelligence leaving the trucks
driverless. This takes the job of human leaving them jobless. About 2.2 million to about 3.1
million jobs will be altered by the self-driving vehicles (Pandey, 2018). The skills that are
involved in the factories are also replaced the automation techniques. The workers involved in
banks also are replaced by advanced skills of technologies taking the jobs of the workers. The
advanced technologies have advanced software programs that enables advanced math solving
techniques.
With the automation system, the common people are facing difficulties regarding their
jobs (Strawn, 2017). The automation system is helping to do all the works very efficiently and
helps improve in advanced working. But, the automation system does not follow all the
techniques of ethics. The four ethics techniques that are described in this essay is the

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utilitarianism, deontology, virtual ethics and contract ethics. All four ethics related to this case
are explained below in details:
Utilitarianism is the first ethics that is to be followed by all system involved in the
environment. Utilitarianism means involvement of actions in a system that gives maximum
utility. To maximize the utilitarianism, the utility of the system is to be maximized so that it
gives it best activity (Chakrabarty & Bass, 2015). Determination of right from the wrong is
involved in utilitarianism. In this case study the utilitarianism ethics is not involved the outcome
from the advanced technology is not satisfying the utility of the humans. The people are left
jobless with the involvement of advanced technology.
The second ethics that is to be followed is the deontology ethics. The deontology ethics is
a relationship between the work or duty of the system and the morality involved in human
actions. The word deontology is means duty of science. The deontology ethics involves doing of
all the actions involved with the system morally (Bowen & Prescott, 2015). In this case study,
the deontology ethics is also not followed as the morality for the common people are not
followed. Because of the advancement of technology, the people are losing their jobs affecting
the moral ethics of advanced technologies.
Third ethics theory is the Virtue theory of ethics. The individual character in the main
part of this virtue ethics rather than rules or consequences about the topic. The virtue ethics
involves quality or habit of a person that helps to succeed them in life. In this case study, there is
no such virtue of ethics (Farah, 2015). As the case study deal with automation process, the virtue
of ethics is not followed in this as it does not involves any personal character of an individual.
The persons involved in this case study are the common people who are left jobless by the
automation system of improved technology.

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The fourth ethics that are involved with the system is the contract theory of ethics. The
social contract theory of ethics involved staying of humans in a society with agreement
establishing political rules and the moral rules (Tavis, 2017). Contract virtue of ethics is explicit
that involves laws, and implicit as well. In this case study, the government should follow the
contract theory to sustain the jobs of an individual.
From the above discussion it can be concluded that to maintain all the theory of ethics,
and save the job of common people. The government must take initiative to train the people with
all the possibilities to work with the advance technologies that involves artificial intelligence and
robots. If training is given to individuals, they will be able to work with the new technologies
that might save them from losing their jobs.

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References
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Chakrabarty, S., & Bass, A. E. (2015). Comparing virtue, consequentialist, and deontological
ethics-based corporate social responsibility: Mitigating microfinance risk in institutional
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Farah, M. J. (2015). An ethics toolbox for neurotechnology. Neuron, 86(1), 34-37.
Inayatullah, S. (2017). Teaching and Learning in Disruptive Futures: Automation, Universal
Basic Income, and Our Jobless Futures. Knowledge Futures: Interdisciplinary Journal of
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Murren, A., & Block, W. E. (2017). What Impact will Automation have on the 21 st Century
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Pandey, R. K. (2018). Automation, Job-Loss and the Law of Entropy.
Strawn, G. (2017). IT and Future Unemployment: Part 2. IT Professional, 19(1), 70-72.
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Ethic Technique
1. What is going on?
 This case study is about increasingly proliferating of automation in all aspect of our lives.
 The increasing automation techniques deals from robots making cars to all the systems
that are includes artificial intelligence system of driving cars without manual drivers.
 This case study highlights the factors that are faced by human labors or human
intelligence about losing the job.
2. What are the facts?
 Automation techniques of making cars with robots or implementing driverless vehicles
are obviously a great invention in the era of technology.
 These robots or the artificial intelligence is taking the technology to a very high level for
the coming generation.
 But common people are facing problem dues to the advancement of the technologies by
losing their jobs as the robots themselves are able to do all the work more efficiently than
human labors.
3. What are the issues?
 The common people like mining labors, factory workers, data processors, faces job
security by the automation system.
 Automation system is taking away jobs of various human labors or data processors and is
expected control over fifty percent of the human labor in next ten years.
4. Who is affected?

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 The mining labors of the mining industries are facing a great loss because of the
automation system as the systems of digging or the system of autonomous system is
taking their jobs.
 The second sectors who is losing their jobs because of the automation system is the taxi
drivers and the delivery drivers. Automation technology is replacing all the human
drivers leading to losing their jobs. This driverless trucks is about to affect 1.7 million
truck drivers.
 The automation system has advanced software programs that is taking the jobs of
technicians in factories and banks.
5. What are the ethical issues and implications?
 The ethical issues that is first faced by this system is utilitarianism, which uses the
automation system to its maximum level affecting the manual human level.
 Deontology is the second issue that is faced by automation system as the decisions that
are taken for this system does not serves the morality of the common people.
 The virtue theory of ethics is also affected by proliferating automation system as the
decision taken is not good for the common people.
6. What can be done about it?
 The use of the automation system should be lessened so decrease the number of
unemployment in the country.
 Automation system is good but the government should provide a boundary of their usage
thinking about the common people.
7. What options are there?

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 The options are that stopping the automation system fully, which is not possible to do.
 The second option that can be undertaken is that using less amount of advanced
technologies or using them with the involvement of human that can stop them from being
unemployed.
8. Which option is best and why?
 The best option is involvement of human labor along with the advancement of artificial
technologies. With this option, the common people will not lose their job and the
common people can also enjoy the advancement of the technologies.