Comment by rossdavidh

I get that they're trying to encourage ethical behavior, but this proposal seems incredibly arrogant. It implicitly states that computer programmers are, as a field, competent to predict how a technology will impact society. Whether or not ANY field is competent to do that is questionable, but whether or not computer programmers are able to do that is not questionable; it's clearly incorrect. We don't have the background, training, skillset, or in some cases even personality to be making insightful predictions about how society will respond to and be impacted by a new technology. I'm not saying the person advocating it is a bad person, but this particular proposal is arrogant (and founded on an incorrect understanding of what kind of thing programmers are good at).