The ethics of LLMs

AI seems to be becoming more and more pervasive, but really 'AI' is the increased use of large language models, or LLMs, as a writin...

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Eight ethical practice questions

I am a member of the US National Career Development Association, which has three regular publications: the web-based Career Convergence; a m...

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Research ethics and the Nuremburg Code

I was reading an article earlier in the year, and ran across the following paragraph: "In 1947, after the Nuremberg trials exposed the ...

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The Stanford Prison Experiment

In August 1971, a social psychology study designed by a team at Stanford University to investigate the effects of role-playing, labelling, a...

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Temptation, desire and ethics

Temptation is a very big thing. Although we usually know what is actually the 'right' thing to do in most morally conflicted circums...

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Career practice and family members

Career practitioners are just like everyone else on the planet: we have a human need for support networks of family and friends; essential f...

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Impartiality and career development

When we are working with our career development clients, we need to ensure 'impartiality'. The CDANZ Code of Ethics, by which all me...

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Ends versus means

Boards may be prescriptive at times – i.e. they write a list of 'thou shalts' for the CE. If the board hasn’t specifically said ...

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The Milgram studies

The Milgram studies - led by psychologist Stanley Milgram - were a series of post-WW2 experiments looking into how we obey those who have au...

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Practitioner ethics and Again Rachel

I do enjoy a good fiction book from time to time. It was 25 years ago that I read "Rachel's Holiday" by Marian Keyes (1998). T...

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CDANZ ethical toolkit

The thorny question of ethics is one that never leaves us in career practice. There are always shades of an issue which we have not yet full...

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Welfel's model for ethical decision-making

It is always useful in career practice to have models to use as lenses to review our decisions. I have written about ethics models before ( ...

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Conflicts of Interest

As a chartered director, as a career practitioner, and in supervising research students, I get reasonably attuned to potential - or perceive...

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