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Most software "engineers" barely think about the societal consequences of their work, and CS students have no "do-no-harm" oath that engineers have to take. I w
by kevintb 9y ago
Most software "engineers" barely think about the societal consequences of their work, and CS students have no "do-no-harm" oath that engineers have to take. I would say that in comparison to engineers who build things for public interest (infrastructure that can kill people), physicists (history of the nuclear bomb), biologists (unethical medical experimentation from WWII), etc ... software engineers barely think about societal consequences of their actions the way other scientific professions do.