Week 5 Lecture - Software Risks and Professional Ethics

Lisa Yan, September 24th, 2024

Materials

• Slides

CS 195 Readings

• Required [Ed post] Fabio. Killed by a Machine: The Therac-25. 2015.
• Required [Ed post] ACM. Code of Ethics. 2018.
• Required [Ed post] Miller. Designing Ethical Self-Driving Cars. 2023.
• Optional [Ed post] Linders. Why Should We Care about Technology Ethics? The Updated ACM Code of Ethics. 2019.
• Optional [Ed post] IEEE. The Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice. 1999.

CS H195 Readings

• Required [Ed post] Linders. Why Should We Care about Technology Ethics? The Updated ACM Code of Ethics. 2019.
• Required [Ed post] Correll. Get Tech the Hell Away from the Trolley Problem. 2020.
• Required [Ed post] Samuel. Effective altruism's most controversial idea. Vox. 2022.