Any good books on ethics in computer science?
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famous-art-1142
05/12/2021, 7:02 AMAny good books on ethics in computer science?
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silly-train-46493
05/12/2021, 7:18 AMI have seen people talking about this book a lot
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578675862/
I have not read it yet, but seems it might lies in there somewhere
@calm-grass-85557 have read it, he can add something to it
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calm-grass-85557
05/12/2021, 7:21 AM@silly-train-46493 From what I read, it talks more about the issues related to building open source software and not specifically ethics. However, it's a good read šÆ
@famous-art-1142 I cannot remember any books but this sprung to my mind when you mentioned Ethics + Computer Science š https://hasgeek.com/kaarana
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famous-art-1142
05/12/2021, 7:30 AM@calm-grass-85557 thanks. I'm already a part of the Kaarana community. š wanted to check here to see if any interesting suggestions come up.
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famous-art-1142
05/12/2021, 7:34 AMEthics is one of the topics that are highly essential in CS but severely under-studied. So I'm just reading up more about it.
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famous-art-1142
05/12/2021, 7:36 AMOne friend suggested these -
ā¢ Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
ā¢ Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
ā¢ The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information
ā¢ The People Vs Tech: How the internet is killing democracy (and how we save it)
ā¢ Technically Wrong ā Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech: Why Digital Products Are Designed to Fail You
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famous-art-1142
05/12/2021, 8:16 AMš 2