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for a computer science degree in the UK to be accredited, the chartered institute mandated an ethics course

therac-25 was in there

and now everyone's shoving as much generative excrement as possibly into everything as quickly as possible

I'm increasingly convinced of the need for professional licensing for software engineering. You get a degree, and sit through that ethics course, and take an exam to get a license, or you don't get to practice. Do unethical things, enjoy major liability.

Software engineers can do just as much damage as civil engineers, automotive engineers, doctors, lawyers, etc...but the industry overall has a disgustingly casual attitude.

I think software engineers in the right place can actually do far more damage than most doctors and lawyers

the scale is simply humongous

just look at what facebook has done to our democracies

Agree, but replace the ethics course with a legal course.

Ethics are just someone else’s biased opinion, legal is put in place by elected officials and has actual consequences.

The law is just someones else encoded ethics for a moment. You don't want your moral to change with the current administration. An ethics course is about thinking about ethics, it is not a mind-altering propaganda action.

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