Week 3 Lecture - Software Risks and Professional Ethics

Lisa Yan, September 11th, 2025

Materials

• Slides

CS 195 Readings

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

CS H195 Readings

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