The tech industry just has a lack of ethics. That's it. And lots of folks trying to craft a trolley problem to mask their accountability.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
In fields that also address this problem, such as medicine, we approach ethical concerns with various tools: review boards, certifications
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
A lawyer can get disbarred, a doctor can lose their board certification, a professor can lose research funding.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
Tell me: where is the equivalent of that in tech?
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
So when I talk about needing to teach ethics, what I refer to is training by case study on the importance of accountability.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
And not some philosophical gibberish that someone will try to throw lambda calculus at. Ethics isn't a field to solve.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
i dunno, that debate is mostly about whether or not ethical decisions can ever be consistent, not formal or logical
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I mean, in this context it's super not relevant. The ethics of human subjects research might change...
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but there's no paste we can just smear on one that absolves us of having to pay attention to them
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