when it comes to things like bombing schools or blighting careers with algorithmic blacklists or choosing what people to abduct into internment camps; if you are writing software to support such systems YTA!
To be a profession a career must include an element of responsibility to the whole of society and to humanity in the abstract.
Software engineers have given themselves a pass on that front but now find themselves in a place where their profession is in danger of being made precarious. And working collectively is, to put it politely; not central to their skill set or education. At best, most software engineers are able to work collaboratively; but they see other software engineers as rivals rather than as fellow workers.
And that is a problem.
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