Engaging Engineering Teams Through Moral Imagination: A Bottom-Up Approach for Responsible Innovation and Ethical Culture Change in Technology Companies

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We propose a "Moral Imagination" methodology to facilitate a culture of responsible innovation for engineering and product teams in technology companies.

• Our approach has been operationalized over the past two years at Google, where we have conducted over 50 workshops with teams across the organization.
• We argue that our approach is a crucial complement to existing formal and informal initiatives for fostering a culture of ethical awareness, deliberation, and decision-making in technology design such as company principles, ethics and privacy review procedures, and compliance controls.
• We characterize some of the distinctive benefits of our methodology for the technology sector in particular.