Whats the predisposition of practitioners to ethical behavior?
In medicine there’s an awareness of the impact of the practitioner’s actions on people because they see them up close. But computer specialists haven’t had the perception that ethics or social concerns are important, because they don’t see the human impact of their work. They never see who uses the software. If I’m writing a subroutine library, I may not even know what software it’s used in. We think “We’re writing throw-away code,” or “We have to get it to market right now.” There’s a whole sense that these other issues don’t apply, and we end up with systems that ignore safety and privacy concerns. We’re building systems that capture information because we can, without considering whether we should do so. We add features that the user doesn’t want or need or use, because we can. And then people act surprised when those extra features contribute to failure or misuse. Too many computer specialists don’t stop to think of ethical issues, because they’ve been taught that it’s a mathematic
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