I looked a bit at ethics in neural network science/engineering. As I see it, there are 3 categories of ethical issues specific to the topic rather than being general professional ethics issues:

• Issues surrounding applications such as privacy, big data, surveillance, killer robots etc.
• Machine learning allows machines to learn the wrong things.
• Machines as moral agents or patients.

The first category is important, but I leave that for others to discuss. It is not necessarily linked to neural networks per se, anyway. It is about responsibility for technology and what one works on.

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