Ethical alternatives for tech stuff
We’re compiling guides on how to live a better digital life and the companies which are worth your time and money.
Popular Guides
These are some top notch options, we can’t say much else!
Facebook Alternatives Guide: 2023 Update
February 2023: When I originally wrote this guide, years ago, Facebook was a true behemoth. It’s still a massive tech… Read more
Amazon Alternatives Guide: 2022 Update
Why would anyone want to avoid Amazon? A one-stop-shop for everything from books to clothes to pillows featuring Nicolas Cage’s… Read more
A Beginner’s Guide to Eating Sustainably in London
We all know and love London as an incredible foodie city. However, we also know that the average diet is… Read more
Recent Posts
These are some top notch options, we can’t say much else!
Could machines help us be more ethical?
Even as a professional ethicist, I’ll admit it’s not easy to live an ethical life. Heck, it’s a slog at times. Choosing to living well means thinking critically about choices that most people make automatically. Sometimes it means committing to courses of action we don’t enjoy, drawing solace from the knowledge that the greater good… Read More
Teaching machines right from wrong
The trouble with computers: you get exactly what you ask for. Ask a robot waiter to serve table eight’s food immediately and it might just throw it. An AI that’s trying to earn you money might decide the best way is to sell your house. It’s not enough to tell machines what to do; you… Read More
Should we be polite to chatbots?
Suddenly they’re everywhere, destroying the idea of homework as we know it and worrying writers across the globe. Few technologies have captured public imagination quite like the modern chatbot: it took ChatGPT just two months to reach 100 million users, a feat that took Instagram two years. Understandably, tech firms now are racing to launch… Read More
What is ethical anyway?
We know that “ethical” isn’t an objective word — it can mean different things to different people.
For us, ethical means moving in the direction of least possible harm against other people, animals and the planet.
Read more about it in our manifesto.
“Ethics aren’t just a concept or idea, it’s something alive, something that needs to be lived. Ethics aren’t really ethical if they aren’t lived by oneself.”
Cata
“Ethics? It’s simple, don’t be an asshole!”
Maarten
“My main question is: how can we avoid ethics from being another stick we hit people with. But instead an inspiring and supportive force for good.”
Anca
Resources
We’ve compiled an open list of resources for ethical living — from books to browser extensions, TED talks to apps.
Good reads
Do you know it all? No… us neither. We want to keep learning.