Eric Schrock, Forbes; Move Fast And (Don't) Break Things
[Kip
Currier: Excellent points made by the author, underscoring the need for
organizations of all kinds to provide and promote data ethics education
and training within organizational cultures. As RuPaul would say, "Can I
get an Amen up in here?!"]
"Integrate Data Ethics Training
The technology landscape is changing rapidly, and few employees
are familiar with the ethical implications of new techniques. The
applications of computer science are so diverse and varied that there’s
no all-encompassing set of standards they can to look to. Navigating
what’s right and wrong when you’re moving fast and under pressure to
meet project deadlines can add a ton of pressure and be a recipe for
data breach or misuse.
Companies have a duty to provide their employees with training,
and we’re seeing it outside industries, too. At the University of
Stanford, a joint initiative by the students in computer science, Social Good and the Stanford AI Group offer
a course on the ethical implications of AI as a way to get future
computer scientists and engineers to think about the role of ethics tied
to the products they’re creating.
Despite the need to move fast, people need to have downtime to
think about the work they’re doing and whether it addresses data privacy
and security concerns. We need to stop talking about ethics only when a
massive breach happens and instead ensure that they’re ingrained in
workflows and across developer communities to help form broader
professional standards. Companies should provide their employees with
this on-the-job learning.
In 2014, Facebook updated its motto to the less catchy “move fast with stable infrastructure."
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