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Andreessen's Corollary: Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering - Bryan Cantrill | Craft 2019
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Bryan Cantrill explores the ethical dilemmas software engineers face as software increasingly impacts society, the law, and personal morals.
In 2011, Marc Andreessen famously predicted that software would eat the world. Eight years later, this prophesy is clearly coming to fruition -- and software's contact with our broader world is bringing with it novel ethical dilemmas for those who endeavor to build it. More than ever, we software engineers are likely to find ourselves in new frontiers with respect to society, the law or our own moral compass -- but often without any formal training or even acknowledgement with respect to the ethical dimensions of our work. In this talk, we will explore some of these new dilemmas, not to offer sanctimonious judgement but rather to try to equip ourselves to have the important new conversations demanded of our expanded role with respect to society. - Captured Live on Ustream at ustream.tv/channel/craftconf with the Ustream Mobile AppWhy it's here
4 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended as an insightful and highly engaging talk on the moral responsibilities and ethical challenges of software engineering.
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Yes, you have brought this up before.0 And as I have said before1 -- and will presumably say for the next 26 years as well -- I very much regret that quip. (The irony is that that was dredged up in part because people very strongly disagreed with my handling of the Noordhuis incident a decade ago.) But I will stand by my assertion that I have been outspoken about my disagreements with what I have found to be problematic in modern Silicon Valley, e.g. 234. 0 link 1 link 2 link 3 link to this video 4 link
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…ue to speak my truth about the moral decay in tech, and why we must hold ourselves to a higher standard.01234 And I obviously agree with your indignation that poor corporate behavior should not be the status quo! 0 Principles of Technology Leadership , link (2017) 1 Andreessen's Corollary: Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering , link to this video (2019) 2 (Anti-)application Video for YC120 , link (2019) 3 Coming Of Age , link (2022) 4 Intelligence is not Enough , link (2023)…
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