As someone who has done "ethics training" as part of an engineering degree, I don't believe for a second that it has a significant impact on the choices most engineers would make in their jobs.

Sure it helps to have established bodies to hold engineers accountable and report violations to, but I certainly don't think the ethics training is a significant factor. There's no shortage of degreed engineers signing off on things far more ethically questionable than most of what big tech is doing.

This also sounds pretty optimistic as a generalisation: > people refuse to sign off on work they don't understand or aren't confident in