Post AaxsEWSBPTuQLPNCjo by edd@freeradical.zone
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 (DIR) Post #AaxqRmlxqc4ioTp3Ka by tek@freeradical.zone
       2023-10-20T14:34:02Z
       
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       Just learned that the comp sci department at the university I went to is launching a new BS in Data Science. It includes a requirement for a philosophy course in data ethics. I'm proud of them for that!
       
 (DIR) Post #AaxsEWSBPTuQLPNCjo by edd@freeradical.zone
       2023-10-20T14:54:03Z
       
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       @tek I'd be wary of a single ethics course. My degree had an ethics course requirement, but it was kind of a fluff course; talk a bit about different ethical models, go into some real life major ethical breaches, but not much in real take-aways or nuance that I recall.
       
 (DIR) Post #AaxsquNWuELDYBV5ua by tek@freeradical.zone
       2023-10-20T15:00:58Z
       
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       @edd Sure. It’s a deep subject. The comp sci BS requires an ethics in software engineering class tailored to the major, with things like Ariane 5 and Therac-25 used as examples. Instead of a broad “theory of ethics”, it was narrowly focused on how ethics relate to our daily job. I think/hope this is similar. I saw privacy mentioned the course outline on a slide.
       
 (DIR) Post #AaxtCYa0dLiUJVf0gC by edd@freeradical.zone
       2023-10-20T15:04:54Z
       
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       @tek I think those were the cases we had in ours as well. I wish we went over more nuanced ethical issues than "if your product can kill people but it shouldn't, make sure it doesn't". It's not really debatable that Therac-25 was an absolute screw up, but ethics around data collection and selling customer data is.
       
 (DIR) Post #AaxzNnbJj28JoM144W by tek@freeradical.zone
       2023-10-20T16:14:08Z
       
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       @edd Hard agree.