Responsible innovation toolkit: Judgement call

Judgment Call is an award-winning responsible innovation game and team-based activity that puts Microsoft's AI principles of fairness, privacy and security, reliability and safety, transparency, inclusion, and accountability into action. The game provides an easy-to-use method for cultivating stakeholder empathy through scenario-imagining.

Technology builders need practical methods to incorporate ethics in product development, by considering the values of diverse stakeholders and how technology may uphold or not uphold those values. The goal of the game is to imagine potential outcomes of a product or platform by gaining a better understanding of stakeholders, and what they need and expect.

The game helps people discuss challenging topics in a safe space within the context of gameplay, and gives technology creator a vocabulary to facilitate ethics discussions during product development. It gives managers and designers an interactive tool to lead ethical dialogue with their teams to incorporate ethical design in their products.

The game includes the following elements:

• Identify the product: identifying the product of interest.
• Defining roles: identifying stakeholders impacted by the technology and ethical principles linked to it.
• Brainstorm and identify stakeholders: understand the direct and indirect impacts of the technology.
• Scenarios: identifying scenarios and corresponding actions.