A core issue in the philosophy of technology has been the non-neutrality of technology. Most scholars in the field agree that
technologies actively help to shape culture and society, rather than being neutral means for realizing human ends. How to
take seriously this non-neutrality of technology in ethics? Engineering ethics mainly focuses on the moral decisions and responsibilities
of designers, and remains too external to the moral significance of technologies themselves. Yet, analyses of the non-neutrality
of technology make it plausible to ascribe some morality to artifacts. First of all, technologies substantially contribute
to the coming about of actions and of decisions about how to act. Second, their role cannot be entirely reduced to the intentions
behind their design and use. This paper investigates what these observations imply for ethical theory, and for the ethics
of design.