Professional Ethics Flashcards
Policy Vacuums
Rate of change in tech is exceeding the rate of change in laws, norms, or values.
Invisible abuse
Software secretly manipulates financial transactions.
Invisible Programing Values
Algorithms can have biases that go undetected but impact users unfairly
invisible complexity
Computers perform tasks that even experts cannot fully understand
Negligence
not doing something that a reasonable person would do or doing something a reasonable person would not do
Duty of care
The obligation to protect people against any unreasonable harm or risk
Reasonable person standard
Defines how an objective, careful, and conscientious person would have acted in the same circumstances
Reasonable professional standard
A legal standard that defendants who have a particular expertise or competence are measured against
Breach of duty of care
The failure to act as a reasonable person would act
Professional malpractice
Breach of the duty of care by a professional
Body of Knowledge
An agreed-upon stets of skills and abilities all licensed professionals must possess
Material Breach of Contract
The failure of one party to perform certain expresses or implied obligations, which impairs or destroys the essence of the contract
Professional
-Unique privileges by community
-Licensing required by law
-Regulates self with code of ethics
-Has its’ own culture
-Social contract
Four Founding Societies
-ASCE
-AIEE
-ASME
-AIME
Why a Code of Ethics?
They exist to state expectations about how a professional should behave.
Inward-facing
Communications to professionals themselves
Outward-facing
Communicating to the rest of the world
