The Battle for Ethics in Tech Companies

The Belmont report in 1978 was trying to make ethics, not only well defined but actually a government specification for ethics. So that background took a lot of work for some really smart people and they worked hard to define it. It also does influence the way that academic researchers who move into these tech companies are thinking about ethics. That's an example of a kind of form of reasoning that says what we do is the best for society taken as a mass. And then you've got to think about both of those things carefully before making decisions.