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Fraudsters, ethics and corporations.

In our lectures, we have spent the last couple of weeks discussing the contemporary issues in financial ethics. The first lecture focused on ethics in regard to professional ethics. I think it is important to understand the definition ethics to truly understand its subjective nature. Ethics can be simply defined as a set of moral principle which govern a person’s behaviour. Ethics is a topic debated often in the corporate world especially due to scandals which can have devastating effects on a company. A topic which is also discussed frequently, is the implementation of artificial intelligence in corporations, the reason why this can often be a controversial topic is due to the many questioning whether or not it is ethical to implement such technology. I think this largely stems from the fact that technology such as artificial intelligence often replaces the jobs of humans and is often found to be much more efficient for a business. But is it morally correct to replace t