  With humans increasingly serving as computational elements in distributed
information processing systems and in consideration of the profit-driven
motives and potential inequities that might accompany the emerging thinking
economy[1], we recognize the need for establishing a set of related ethics to
ensure the fair treatment and wellbeing of online cognitive laborers and the
conscientious use of the capabilities to which they contribute. Toward this
end, we first describe human-in-the-loop computing in context of the new
concerns it raises that are not addressed by traditional ethical research
standards. We then describe shortcomings in the traditional approach to ethical
review and introduce a dynamic approach for sustaining an ethical framework
that can continue to evolve within the rapidly shifting context of disruptive
new technologies.
