Its called Code Im Still Ashamed Of.
Martin is a famous-in-his-world programmer and speaker better known as Uncle Bob.
His creation: a quiz in which the only result was that the girl should take the clients drug.
He found out that even his own 19-year-old sister had been taking the drug and warned her off it.
Decades later, he still feels guilty about it, he told Business Insider.
But the truth is, I didnt think much of it at the time.
I had a job to do, and I did it.
Sourour is not the only programmer who is still plagued with guilt.
They included programmers asked to violate laws and endanger people, among other things.
Suorour believes that we are at a turning point in which the ethics has to be taken very seriously.
He reckons one day soon, artificial intelligence-driven machines might be giving us our prescriptions.
Sourour thinks education is important.
These rarely, if ever, include any kind of ethics training.
Source:Business Insider
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