Ethical assessment category

Ethical Assessments of Business and Technology Leaders

Ethical assessments of influential business and technology leaders, examining innovation, labour, power, social consequences and public responsibility.

4 ethical assessment profiles

Current score range

Highest current result +59.46 Bill Gates
Lowest current result -45.35 Mark Zuckerberg

Overall scores are equal-weight averages of each profile’s applicable six-dimensional results. Profiles below are ordered from highest to lowest.

Profiles in Ethical Assessments of Business and Technology Leaders

Person

Bill Gates

The assessment covers Microsoft's market power, global health philanthropy, vaccination, disease eradication, agricultural development, wealth concentration and the accountability of private influence over public priorities.

This is a contemporary assessment current to 26 June 2026. It must be revised as later conduct and evidence become available.

Overall score +59.46
Period
1975–2026
Evidence confidence
B — high

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Person

Steve Jobs

The assessment covers Jobs's role in personal computing, digital media and mobile technology, product accessibility and design, together with closed-platform control, harsh management and supply-chain labour concerns.

This is a contemporary assessment current to 26 June 2026. It must be revised as later conduct and evidence become available.

Overall score +11.98
Period
1976–2011
Evidence confidence
C — moderate

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Person

Elon Musk

Technology executive leading Tesla and SpaceX and associated with X and xAI. The assessment covers electric-vehicle adoption, space launch capability, public communications, platform governance, environmental compliance and securities-law violations.

This is a contemporary assessment current to 26 June 2026. It must be revised as later conduct and evidence become available.

Overall score -2.82
Period
2004–2026
Evidence confidence
C — moderate

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Person

Mark Zuckerberg

The assessment covers global communication, privacy, surveillance advertising, algorithmic amplification, election and conflict risks, harm to children, philanthropy and concentrated founder control.

This is a contemporary assessment current to 26 June 2026. It must be revised as later conduct and evidence become available.

Overall score -45.35
Period
2004–2026
Evidence confidence
B — high

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