Showing posts with label Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne. Show all posts

Monday, June 4, 2018

Stanford makes a startling new discovery. Ethics; ZDNet, June 4, 2018

, 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."