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Re:Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the ... by ryandrake on Thursday April 23, 2026 @04:46PM (#47881684)
Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was in university, we used to have at least one engineering ethics class in undergrad. Have they stopped those? It sure seems like it, given how many engineers are out there who only seem to care about how technically cool and interesting their projects are.
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Re:Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the ... by pesus on Thursday April 23, 2026 @05:58PM (#47882666)
I took one back in 2018 or so, and I assume it's still a degree requirement. If most are like the one I took, however, very few people seriously engaged with the class, and it's just viewed as a filler class.

It didn't help that the workload was a joke. I believe the entirety of our assignments were 5 single page "essay" responses to some ethical scenarios, and the professor seemed to hand out As just for writing enough. It probably took me less than 2 hours of total writing. I imagine most of the students these days are just having ChatGPT write it for them. We absolutely need to take ethics more seriously though, even if it involves adding more/more rigorous courses to the curriculum.

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Re:Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the ... by satvikpendem on Friday April 24, 2026 @02:19AM (#47886307)
They exist for the "college of engineering" majors such as mechanical, chemical, civil etc. Computer science is considered a natural science in many universities (and is in the corresponding college) and thus does not have an ethics course mandated like other engineering disciplines.
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Re:Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the ... by KylerAce on Friday April 24, 2026 @02:25AM (#47886336)
Took one in my undergrad circa 25
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Re:Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the ... by badgersnake on Friday April 24, 2026 @07:01AM (#47888488)
When I did mine, it was mandatory to get BCS accreditation for the degree to teach some professional ethics.

I don’t know if that is still the case though, I’m not sure how relevant BCS membership is these days, I don’t know anyone who has it.

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