Engineering & Ethics: Responsibility by Design
summary
Argues that teams should use a concrete assessment, the digital ethics canvas, to list benefits, harms, mitigations and tradeoffs for any system; the canvas exposes concepts like ethical debt and forces review across five lenses: welfare, fairness, autonomy, privacy, sustainability. Gives concrete failures (Therac-25 race condition causing fatal overdoses), practical wins (a heat‑recovering data center), and workplace tactics: document values, form an ethics guild, tie proposals to business outcomes, and accept occasional compromise or walking away.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:23Defining engineering ethics
- 11:52Dangerous software risks
- 23:09Digital ethics canvas
- 30:08Change or walk away
- 36:07Conclusion
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