Student: "My career ambition to be an ethical technologist" Me: "Why do we need more ethics in tech?" "Just cause we can do something, doesn't mean we should" "We already have lots of ethics in tech, why do we need MORE?" <awkward silence>
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That's a bit too terse for me to understand you.
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You’re thinking of ethics as a thing you can trade off against other values, like one of many departments in a company. Indeed if you had an “ethics department”, it would be a compliance department, and I’d worry about overfunding it relative to others.
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