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Dr Matthew Beard is a husband, dad and a moral philosopher with an academic background in applied and military ethics. He is a Fellow at The Ethics Centre and co-author of Ethical By Design: Principles for Good Technology.
Because tech design is a human activity, and there’s no such thing as human behavior without ethics.