MIT is a literally world-changing institution, equipping its students, faculty, and alumni to innovate in science and technology for a better future.  But what happens when your hopes and dreams collide with the realities of the job market? In this mini-course, MIT students, faculty, staff, and alumni are invited to contemplate the practical realities of bringing the values of the Christian faith to work in the tech industry.

Session 1: a macro look at the complex economic incentives that make ethical choices in industry so difficult. Featuring tech investor David S. Price (Preston-Werner Ventures) and entrepreneur Jonathan Teubner (FilterLabs.AI). 

Session 2: the practical ethics of everyday life in business. In a dog-eat-dog, cutthroat environment, how can you actually treat your colleagues and stakeholders as people? MIT's Di Ye will walk us through becoming transformative leaders rather than transactional ones.

Past topics have included:

• What MIT didn’t teach you: an alumni panel exploring everyday ethics and human flourishing in technological industry (with Ted Leung, Ernie Prabhakar, Angie Du, Marcus Gibson)

• Climate science (with Dorothy Boorse, Professor of Biology at Gordon College)

• Bioethics (with Praveen Sethupathy, Professor of Physiological Genomics at Cornell University)

• Artificial Intelligence (with Ehi Nosakhare (MIT PhD ‘18), Senior Data and Applied Science Manager at Microsoft)