Cherri M. Pancake, The Conversation via Scientific American; Computer Programmers Get New Tech Ethics Code: The guidelines come from the Association for Computing Machinery
"That’s why the world’s largest organization of computer scientists and engineers, the Association for Computing Machinery, of which I am president, has issued a new code of ethics for computing professionals. And it’s why ACM is taking other steps to help technologists engage with ethical questions...
ACM’s last code of ethics was adopted in 1992, when many people saw
computing work as purely technical. The internet was in its infancy and
people were just beginning to understand the value of being able to
aggregate and distribute information widely. It would still be years
before artificial intelligence and machine learning had applications
outside research labs.
Today, technologists’ work can affect the lives and livelihoods of
people in ways that may be unintended, even unpredictable. I’m not an
ethicist by training, but it’s clear to me that anyone in today’s
computing field can benefit from guidance on ethical thinking and
behavior."
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Wednesday, September 5, 2018
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