Software, AI, and digital ecosystems now permeate our lives, and yet those who make the devices and programs we use every single day are not obligated by any federal statute or enforceable code to give due consideration to the ethical impacts to users or society at large. As a profession, software engineering has a serious ethics problem that needs to be addressed. Tech companies do not magically create problematic or dangerous platforms out of thin air—there are people inside these companies who build these technologies. But there is an obvious problem: Software engineers and data scientists
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