The computer serves man.

Widdershin / programmers-oath

An oath for programmers, comparable to the Hippocratic Oath

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Open seclorum opened 6 years ago

seclorum commented 6 years ago

I will strive to ensure this remains always so.

Widdershin commented 6 years ago

How can one reasonably work towards this goal? Just don't try to build general artificial intelligences?

seclorum commented 6 years ago

Don't build software with the purpose of enslaving humans to computers.

mo-g commented 6 years ago

Isn't the nature of a programmer, a human who serves a machine? Analogous to a teacher, serving their pupils?

Tongue in cheek response, I admit.