We can be optimistic that a new generation of students will embrace this cause with enthusiasm. In early 2018, I posed publicly a question together with Harry Shum, a Microsoft executive vice president responsible for much of our AI work, who earned his PhD in robotics. “Could we see a Hippocratic oath for coders like we have for doctors?” We joined others in suggesting that such an oath could make sense.30 Within a matter of weeks, a computer science professor at the University of Washington had taken a stab at editing the traditional Hippocratic oath to suggest a new code for those who
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