"rush" Many of us have been begging for this for years but.. never mind us. I know folks who advocated for this since the 70s! Even earlier. Also, cannot do ethics add-on, extra course. Ethics isn't an extra patch; it has to be built up from root—integral to design.https://twitter.com/amarashar/status/963199544904298496 …
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Also, I've been teaching a version of computers/society/data/AI and ethics for ... as long as I've been teaching! I even wrangled to teach such a course when I was an adjunct! I often have CS students show up in my course just because that's where they could have the discussion.
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You have to integrate ethics into the computer science curriculum from the first moment you teach students here's a variable, here's an array, and look, we can sort things. When you run your first qsort, you've encountered ethical and ontological questions. Let's talk about them.
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what ethical and ontological questions arise from running qsort?
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It is a slight but not a complete exaggeration to describe the project of modernity fundamentally as the project of making the world legible (and sortable) to power—including state and corporate power. (I <3 the book "Seeing Like a State" for a good conceptual framework on this).
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qsort sorts discrete data.. We often take continuous or continuous-ish stuff from the messy world & make it discrete. Stuff it into arrays. So many ontological questions just right there! How do we discretize? Who decides? How? And then sorting. One way among many to prioritize.
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You could start by asking simple Q.. How do we discretize a variable like race? Or gender? So much just right there. Talk about why sort is so central to CS, so much attention early on--developed as mechanisms of control/calculation of enterprises/states growing at scale.
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