Ethics in Software Engineering - Should We Care
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Covers concrete harms tied to software—Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, VW, Boeing, Uber—and the ethical tensions they create around privacy, bias, safety and surveillance; cites the ACM/IEEE code of ethics and company policies from Oracle, Adobe, Salesforce, GitLab and Buffer; recommends specific actions: know the big picture, check for explainability and bias in AI, require whistleblowing and ethics questions in company surveys, insist on security vs time‑to‑market tradeoffs, and speak up with courage and documented principles.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:47Why ethics matters
- 7:30Real-world ethical dilemmas
- 13:56Ethical challenges in software
- 19:55Structuring software ethics
- 23:44Practical steps for ethics
- 31:13Integrity and tough choices
- 34:53Q&A
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