26 | Ge Wang on Artful Design, Computers, and Music
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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The Importance of Ethics in Engineering
"You can't fail to have ethical dimensions of your work when you're designing things," he says. "Technology is not that good or bad, nor is it neutral, right? And it has an effect." The world currently thinks of ethics largely as this kind of like leash on technology,. But what if those values are not the leash, but the foundation of what you make in the first place? He adds: "It's much more proactive than to say ... how can we make sure it does no evil?"
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