Chris Matyszczyk, ZDNet; Stanford makes a startling new discovery. Ethics
"Now, in a glorious moment of chest-beating and head-bobbing, Stanford
University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne has admitted that his
university -- which spawned so many young, great tech titans, such as
the founders of Google, Instagram and LinkedIn -- failed to make titanic
efforts in the area of ethics.
In an interview with the Financial Times, he revealed that the university now intends to explore the teaching of "ethics, society and technology."
As we survey the political and social carnage that seems to have been enabled by technology over the last few years, it's remarkable that this wasn't thought of before."
Ethically-tangled aspects of 21st century societies and cultures. In the vein of Charles Darwin’s 1859 “entangled bank” metaphor—a complex and evolving digital ecosystem of difference and dependence, where humans, technologies, ethics, law, policy, data, and information converge and diverge. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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Monday, June 4, 2018
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