• You are the CEO of a Machine Learning company who has been approached to analyse the online habits of Canadian citizens in order to develop a model that assigns "citizen points" to activities (ex. Picking up litter is +2, littering is -2 points). The government intends to only use it for beneficial purposes (or so you are told).It also would be of great interest to foriegn governments as they would be able to dissect how Canadians behave and use that knowledge to potentially sway outcomes of elections, etc. This project would shore up the financial health of the firm for the next decade. short piece describing the ethical framework you have installed at your company to help you decide if this passes your internal ethics test.

• What is the ethical situation at hand?
• What are your thoughts on:
  • What are the explicit values you would define as part of your ethical framework ?
  • How would you incentivize your staff to conform to your ethical framework?

Would you take the project?