An Ethical Crisis in Computing?
summary
Argues computing shows a crisis of trust driven by surveillance capitalism and corporate steering of society rather than an “ethics course” gap; cites deployed automated decision systems in courts (ProPublica finds the COMPAS tool biased against Black defendants) and Google’s ad engine as a profit motive (roughly $100B annual ad revenue), explains why market and culture choices—not just programmer morals—created the harms, and presses public policy fixes (GDPR, paid no‑tracking options) over only curricular ethics.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 2:43A Crisis of Trust
- 3:18Trust in Technology?
- 4:41Trust in Technology Vendors
- 8:09ML and the Justice System
- 28:25Technology is Driving the Future
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