Tom Simonite, Wired; Should Data Scientists Adhere to a Hippocratic Oath?
"The tech industry is having a moment of
reflection. Even Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook are talking openly about
the downsides of software and algorithms mediating our lives. And while calls for regulation
have been met with increased lobbying to block or shape any rules, some
people around the industry are entertaining forms of self regulation.
One idea swirling around: Should the programmers and data scientists
massaging our data sign a kind of digital Hippocratic oath?
Microsoft released a 151-page book
last month on the effects of artificial intelligence on society that
argued “it could make sense” to bind coders to a pledge like that taken
by physicians to “first do no harm.” In San Francisco Tuesday, dozens of
data scientists from tech companies, governments, and nonprofits
gathered to start drafting an ethics code for their profession."
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