Teaching Trade-offs in a Digital Ethics Course

This article outlines a seminar on algorithmic fairness, as part of a course in digital ethics. Part of the function of the seminar was to teach students trade-offs within the use and design of AI systems as it concerns fairness of algorithmic decision-making. Here I reflect on the teaching of trade-offs through the lens of said seminar, and conclude by calling for substantive changes in the pedagogy and methodology of teaching digital ethics.