Mozilla Challenges Educators To Integrate Ethics Into STEM (fastcompany.com)

Today, Mozilla, along with Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies, is launching a competition for professors and educators to effectively integrate ethics into computer science education at the undergraduate level. From a report: The context, called the Responsible Computer Science Challenge, will award up to $3.5 million over the next two years to proposals focused on how to make ethics relevant to young technologists. "You can't take an ethics course from 50 or even 25 years ago and drop it in the middle of a computer science program and expect it to grab people or be particularly applicable," Mitchell Baker, the founder and chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation, said. "We are looking to encourage ways of teaching ethics that make sense in a computer science program, that make sense today, and that make sense in understanding questions of data."

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Re:Who's Ethics?

[PopeRatzo]

I'm pretty sure a lot of people won't accept my ethical values.

A minute ago, you couldn't identify ethical values, and all of a sudden you can judge what people will and will not accept?

It is much easier to scream about Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, Bigotry than it is to form a coherent code of ethics that has deliberative rational thought behind it (even if you disagree with my rationale).

Yep, as I thought, you don't really know what ethics are.

I don't mind when people are ignorant, but when they're willfully, even gleefully ignorant, I'm offended. It is best not to be proud of not knowing, which is a hallmark of those who share your political beliefs.

Funny that the same people who made such a big deal about "ethics in journalism" are suddenly infuriated by the very notion of ethics.