Zeninjor Enwemeka, NPR; Solving The Tech Industry's Ethics Problem Could Start In The Classroom
"Ethics is something the world's largest tech companies are being forced
to reckon with. Facebook has been criticized for failing to quickly
remove toxic content, including the livestream of the New Zealand mosque shooting. YouTube had to disable comments on videos of minors after pedophiles flocked to its platform.
Some companies have hired ethicists to help them spot some of these
issues. But philosophy professor Abby Everett Jaques of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology says that's not enough. It's
crucial for future engineers and computer scientists to understand the
pitfalls of tech, she says. So she created a class at MIT called Ethics of Technology."
Issues and developments related to ethics, information, and technologies, examined in the ethics and intellectual property graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published in Summer 2025. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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Thursday, July 25, 2019
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