Digital Ethics in an Unethical Era:How to Not Ruin The World
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A survey of 1,683 respondents finds ~70% no formal ethics education, and the talk links postwar cybernetics to modern software: cybernetics informs decisions about data flows, APIs and responsibility while containerization and Kubernetes amplify opacity and dilute accountability. Concrete prescriptions include slowing down—stop moving fast and breaking things—adding ethics training, design-level appeals and external audits, auditing data sharing and accessibility, and actively dismantling white supremacy as part of ethical system design.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:22Sonias background
- 4:45Social media poll
- 7:22What is cybernetics
- 8:40What is communication
- 10:48The Levitical Ethics
- 12:12Considerations for Machines
- 16:36Who are we
- 21:56Stop moving fast
- 23:36The profit maximization
- 25:37Humanity
- 27:01Ethical Standards
- 30:47Resources
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