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Museums And Morality: An Ethical Analysis Of Replacing Jobs With Technology, Trevor J. Ladner

Ideas: Exhibit Catalog for the Honors College Visiting Scholars Series

During the COVID-19 pandemic, museums across the world shut their doors and laid off many. As they have begun to reopen, many of the roles that people used to hold in museums have failed to return instead being replaced by new technology. As this trend continues moving into the post-pandemic world, is it morally acceptable to replace jobs in museums with new forms of technology? Kantian, utilitarian, care-base, and virtue ethics agree that it is not acceptable due to the greater harm that is caused to those effected.