Re Computer science faces an ethics crisis. The Cambridge Analytica scandal proves it. - The Boston Globe

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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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 
> Globe
>
> > computer 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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