The Ethics and Responsibilities of Open Source in the IoT
summary
The talk gives concrete incidents: a photoplethysmography sensor reads 119 bpm from raw chicken and the result is reproducible across devices; wearable logs are used to convict a woman of false reporting; a Google self‑driving car is found at fault in a collision and a Tesla autopilot causes a fatal crash; npm’s left‑pad removal breaks builds; Samsung Family Hub photos can expose Copaxone and evade HIPAA protections; medical device software rules (SOUP) and codes of conduct are proposed as remedies.
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chapters (29)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:28Content Warning
- 3:35Civil vs aeronautical engineers
- 4:34Robert Moses
- 7:17Public Infrastructure
- 8:07Lift Communities
- 8:53The Kinect Effect
- 11:16The Bomb Disposal Robot
- 11:59Algorithms are not perfect
- 12:43Hardware fails
- 13:19Hardware failure example
- 17:05Ethical questions
- 17:41Selfdriving car accident
- 18:06Bus yield
- 19:35Autopilot fatality
- 20:03Selfdriving cars
- 21:19Legal implications
- 22:24Unregulated IoT
- 23:33Samsung Family Hub
- 24:16Copaxone
- 25:37Tech hates regulation
- 26:55Driver Wrong Side of the Road
- 27:23Tech Industry Regulation
- 28:06Medical Device Software
- 29:27Software of unknown pedigree
- 30:11Code of conduct
- 31:55Failure Analysis
- 32:27NPM
- 33:15Broken builds
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