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What!? Professional engineers do consider the greater good of society in their code of ethics. Introductory courses in ethics are a mandatory part of the curric

• stlHusker 8y ago
  And yet that is not even close to the hand-wringing being discussed in the article: "In my first ever AI class, we learned about how a system had been developed to automate something that had previously been a person’s job. Everyone said, “Isn’t this amazing?” — but I was concerned about who did these jobs. It stuck with me that no one else’s ears perked up at the significant downside to this very cool invention." "Then, the gatekeepers are the press, and it’s up to them to ask what the negative impacts of the technology are." Building an entire society of victims and allowing the hysterical press, who are in the business of feeding a hysterical public sounds like a formula for paralysis.
• ghein 8y ago
  I'm appalled at the lack of ethics in civil and mechanical engineering! Automotive engineers willfully destroyed opportunity for stablehands, whip manufacturers, and train conductors out of hundreds of other occupations annihilated. Civil engineers with their oriented strand board trusses, reinforced concrete, and dimensional lumber stole the livelihoods of masons, carpenters, foresters and so many more. Engineers have centuries of unethical practice to atone for. They need to stop their work because everything that they do is harmful and unethical!