the.com/technology ethics
asking whether you should build it, right after proving you can.
means the field that studies the moral consequences of technology, from data privacy to algorithmic bias to autonomous weapons.
from grew out of computer ethics in the 1980s, then exploded once software started making decisions instead of just following them, one bad model at a time.
trolley problembecame literal homework for self-driving car engineers
belated fieldmost tech ships years before its ethics team exists
gdpr effectone law rewrote privacy defaults for the whole internet
favorite job titlechief ethics officer, often hired after the scandal
for instance
cambridge analytica — 2018 scandal, 87 million facebook profiles harvested without consent
facial recognition bans — san francisco outlawed police use of it in 2019
openai charter — 2015 pledge to keep advanced ai benefiting all of humanity
trolley problem av study — mit's moral machine collected 40 million decisions across 233 countries