PALO ALTO, Calif. — The medical
profession has an ethic: First, do no harm.
Silicon Valley has an ethos: Build it first and ask for
forgiveness later.
Now, in the wake of fake news and other troubles at tech
companies, universities that helped produce some of Silicon
Valley’s top technologists are hustling to bring a more
medicine-like morality to computer science.
This semester, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology are jointly offering a new course on the ethics and
regulation of artificial intelligence. The University of Texas at
Austin just introduced a course titled “Ethical Foundations of
Computer Science” — with the idea of eventually requiring it for
all computer science majors.
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