Why Engineers Still Need the Humanities

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bix6 · 8h ago

“To be an engineer, they argued, meant to accept responsibility for the full weight of human values that underlie every engineering problem.”

It seems there is a lot of responsibility shirking these days: we don’t know how our algorithm works. Has that always been the case?

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Why Engineers Still Need the Humanities

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