ABSTRACT
As computing artifacts become increasingly complex, some have suggested that such artifacts greatly complicate issues of responsibility. In order to help deal with these complexities, the authors propose five rules as a normative guide for people who design, develop, deploy, evaluate or use computing artifacts. Their aim is to reaffirm the importance of moral responsibility for these artifacts, and to encourage individuals and institutions to carefully examine their own responsibilities with respect to computing artifacts. The significance of sociotechnical systems should inform any discussion of moral responsibility for computing artifacts, but it complicates matters. Moral Responsibility for Computing Artifacts: Five Rules, by The Ad Hoc Committee for Responsible Computing, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
