Product, Society, and Ethics
summary
Begins by tracing a coder’s path from a Pascal cash register to capacity planning at a search engine and a 2009 open-source sentiment analysis (Twitter), then names concrete failures: Google Health’s product sunset, flight-simulator testing that echoes Boeing crashes, Cambridge Analytica data misuse, and Joy Buolamwini’s face-recognition failures until a white mask fixes detection. Shows a gig-economy plan to score neighborhood safety using Street View that collapses under broken-windows bias, and highlights Airbnb permanent product team to fight bias as a working remedy.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:50Getting into Computing
- 6:31Product Society
- 8:25Key takeaways
- 9:36Ethics in the classroom
- 11:15Ethics in the tech industry
- 12:12Examples of ethical issues
- 13:03How power exists with the builders
- 16:26What is the product role
- 20:55Honor expertise
- 24:16Airbnb example
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