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Re Computer science faces an ethics crisis. The Cambridge Analytica scandal proves it. - The Boston Globe
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 18:16:38 -0400
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From: John Gilmore <gnu () toad com> Date: March 24, 2018 at 5:51:49 PM EDT To: farber () gmail com, gnu () toad com Subject: Re: [IP] Computer science faces an ethics crisis. The Cambridge Analytica scandal proves it. - The Boston Globecomputer science has not yet come to terms with the responsibility that comes with building things which so profoundly affect people's lives.Only 24 years ago, John Perry Barlow keynoted the USENIX conference and said: I know that when I've talked to computer audiences in times past I've had a continuous question and complaint from people in the room who say, "Well, you know, you want me to behave as though I were a social philosopher and, actually what I do is bus architecture." Well, exactly. I don't think you can expect the social philosophers to understand bus architecture very well for a while either. So the job falls to you and the people who understand the basic nature of this very different environment. https://www.eff.org/pages/stopping-information-railroad I hope we all continue to learn how to combine social philosophy with bus architecture. Thanks, Dave, for mixing both in I-P. John
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