Assignment Task

Description

This is an individual assignment where you will report on the following ethical dilemma: Justify, with examples, what ethical principles the Australian government should use when governing organisations’ design and implementation of generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) algorithms to supplement, augment, and substitute employees’ work processes in traditional and non-traditional work settings. Include examples of handling situations when two or more ethical principles may be conflicting.

Part A: The written report will be prepared for the Australian government and will justify the ethical principles that will address their interests. Part A will include (A1) a research synthesis matrix (see below) identifying ethical principles from a specified list of research sources (800 words), which will be submitted as a separate file. Furthermore, part A will include (A2) a report applying the ethical principles in the matrix to the topic), which will be submitted in a separate file.

Part B: A powerpoint presentation will be prepared for workers/trades unions and citizen/resident advocacy organisations and justify how the ethical principles identified and used in Part A will address citizens’ interests and concerns. Part B comprises of a powerpoint presentation applying the ethical principles in the matrix to the topic.

Purpose

The assignment will help you develop and refine your skills in:

• Communicating convincing ethical arguments and resolutions to different stakeholder groups (GLO2 Communication) often with competing ethical interests (GLO8 Global citizenship).
• Applying and justifying principles from ethical decision-making frameworks (GLO8 Global citizenship) faced by digital transformation professionals (GLO1 Discipline-specific knowledge).
• Using digital technologies to manage and analyse research sources and to create a powerpoint presentation (GLO3 Digital literacy).

Context/Scenario

For Part A, please imagine that you are advising the Australian government on preparing a blueprint for dealing with GenAI in the workplace to supplement, augment, and substitute employees’ work processes in traditional and non-traditional organisational work settings.In doing so, your task is to advise the 1 government on the possible ethical implications of using GenAI and how to mitigate potential advantages or disadvantages based on the identified ethical principles.

For Part B, please consider advising workers/labour unions and citizen/resident advocacy organisations on how the identified ethical principles from Part A address the ethical challenges posed by the introduction of GenAI in the workplace in the interests of workers.

The perspectives to be represented in Part A and Part B do not represent mutually exclusive viewpoints. Rather, they are intended to represent two different views on the same set of technologies, which may or may not align in different instances. Please provide your own reasoning for your line of argumentation.