kristotle were a Computing Professional MOOT 'ege uth.edu The Ethics Gap and Computer Sprawl A common clich~ maintains that ethics lags behind technology. Or, as it is sometimes put, ethics must be given a chance to catch up with technology. This conjures up an image of technology running away leaving ethics running breathlessly behind or worse being dragged behind. Presumably, the job of ethically responsible people, i.e., all of us, is to close the ethics gap. We must catch the technological runaway and bring it under control. I agree there is an ethics gap, and I also think that some ancient advice from Aristotle may be useful in approaching it. Sometimes computing technology does run away as in the case of the dramatic 1987 stock market crash. Because computers can instantly respond to momentary price differences in various markets to generate high short-term returns and can exchange unbelievably vast sums of money in very short periods of time, hundreds of millions dollars can be exchanged in a blink of an eye, program trading became an important tool of the stock market. When the market began to decline in 1987, computer decision-making accelerated the process beyond human comprehension. Computers
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If Aristotle were a computing professional
Moor, James H.
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Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 1, 1998
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