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Enhance human welfare: Ethical Issues. By: Jon Stephens, Dan Gregory, Drew Libby, and Jim Alestock. Issues Involved. Moral responsibilities of Engineers Engineering and Terrorism Engineers as Intelligent Robots. Moral Responsibilities of Engineers. Shall, not should
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Enhance human welfare:Ethical Issues By: Jon Stephens, Dan Gregory, Drew Libby, and Jim Alestock
Issues Involved • Moral responsibilities of Engineers • Engineering and Terrorism • Engineers as Intelligent Robots
Moral Responsibilities of Engineers • Shall, not should - “Shall provide” instead of “Should provide” • Paramount the health, safety, and welfare of the public - Dependent upon engineer to design safety measures that are both economical and practical
Engineering and Terrorism • New issue, stemming from attacks on September 11th • Nothing is totally safe from terrorism • “Going up the pipeline” -Find source and fix it, instead of waiting until it reaches the end of the pipeline
Engineers as Intelligent Robots • American engineers – education includes courses in humanities and social sciences - Think for themselves (“Intelligent Robots”) • Foreign engineers – learn specific trade - given direction by manager and perform action (“Unintelligent Robots”) - Chernobyl meltdown