41. Jeff Robbins Association for computer Machinery (ACM) Crossroads Student Magazine. http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds2-2/ethics.html

Computer Based Decision-Making: Three Maxims by Jeff Robbins A lone hacker uses her computer to covertly access a mainframe which controls the assets of a banking conglomerate. Within minutes, she has illegally transferred millions of dollars into her checking account. A hospital administrator decides to replace several physicians with a diagnostic computer which is 25 percent more accurate than an average doctor in matching symptoms to a disease. What is the fundamental similarity between these two situations? And more importantly, what is the primary difference? The focus of this discussion is computer ethics. I shall first give a brief description of three ethical perspectives to be used in our discourse. Then I shall define computer ethics and demonstrate that most of the ``computer ethics'' discussed are superfluous, as computers are just new tools used to accomplish old goals, and the ethical questions regarding computers are unchanged from more familiar scenarios. I will then demonstrate that the area in which computers have potential to raise new moral issues is in the field of computer decision-making. I shall point out some of the new ethical issues raised by automated reasoning and derive several moral principles regarding the use of computers as decision-makers. Three Ethical Perspectives We will view computer ethics from three different angles. I will attempt to introduce the reader to each of them; however, my treatment will necessarily be brief.

42. Computers Academic Freedom (CAF) Archive Code of ethics for Information Scientists, Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science (August/September 1990) 25. http://www.eff.org/pub/CAF/library/ethics.asis

43. Index The centre is housed in Barkers Point Elementary School. It provides computers and internet access to the community. Lists ethics, membership, services and courses. http://cap.ic.gc.ca/nb/barkerspoint/

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