Do the Right Thing: Building Software in an Age of Social Responsibility
summary
Software now drives most top companies and compute trends project compute power ≈ all human brains per $1k in ~40 years, so engineering choices shape society. Examples: PowerShell goes open source on Linux; Azure and planetary-scale clouds enable IoT and AI; Tay’s bot fails within 24 hours shows machine learning bias. Proposals: adopt UL-style trust engineering and a vaccine-style no-fault safety framework, add ethical checkpoints to CI/CD, require security/accessibility certification, form ethics guilds, and treat AI as intuition needing human-boundary checks.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 16:11Building great software means playing the long game
- 21:23Software is too important to forget about ethics
- 33:22National childhood vaccine injury act
- 35:26How do we move forward?
- 38:17Devops & the law of thirds
- 39:17Process engineering 101
- 41:55How do I move forward?
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