Most of the software that influences the behavior of human beings wasn’t created with strong ethical constructs around it. Software developers should ask themselves ethical questions like “who does this affect?”, “who could get hurt by this?”, and “who does this disadvantage or advantage?”, try to answer them, and be comfortable with questions they can’t answer yet.
Theo Schlossnagle, CEO of Circonus, spoke about professional ethics for software developers at QCon London 2018. InfoQ is covering this conference with Q&As, presentations, summaries, and articles.
