从滴滴受害者事件到计算机科学的人文思考
搜雪姐姐的英文课2：
人类社会不断通过创新来推动科技发展，尤其是如今的网络科技发展，信息可以日行千里万里，货币虚拟化、共享平台带来史无前例的生活便利，仿佛带着人类可以“逆天”。但是，every coin has two sides,我们在一味追求科技发展的同时，是否有好好思考过科技发展带来的弊端。今年以来，国内外皆有闹得沸沸扬扬的网络科技事件，facebook数据信息泄露和滴滴乘客连续受害事件，接下来我们先学习以下两个节选文章：
文1：
Didi Chuxing, China’s popular ride-sharingservice, fired two senior executives and suspended a car-pooling service afterthe second killing of a female passenger in three months.
Thecrime follows others that have raised questions about the company’s ability toprotect women who use its services and comes at a fraught time for Didi, one ofthe world’s most successful start-ups.
It is fair to say that every step Didi hastaken has been a passive response to appease the public.
It regards itself as an informationtechnology company, and refuses to accept the fact that it is also atransportation enterprise that has a responsibility to ensure the safety ofthose using its services.
The E-Commerce Law will come into effect onSept 1 next year, when it will not be easy for it to shirk its responsibilityby passing the buck to individual drivers.
文2：
British media reported that the data ofmore than 50 million Facebook users were inappropriately used by a British dataanalysis company, Cambridge Analytica, in activities allegedly connected withU.S. President Donald Trump during his 2016 campaign.
Cambridge Analytica has extracted the datawith the help of a personality quiz on Facebook. The quiz is called “this isyour digital life” and was taken up by nearly 300,000 people. The app illegallyacquired data of the users’ friends and managed to get access to nearly 50million profiles which is against Facebook guidelines. This data was then usedto create a psychological profile of the users as well as their friends basedon their online activities which was further misused for targeted politicaladvertising during UK’s Brexit referendum as well as during the 2016 US presidentialelections.
The Facebook CEO acknowledged that thecompany did make mistakes and more stringent actions are needed to be taken tocheck this.Facebook will conduct a full audit of any app with suspiciousactivity and if something is found amiss, the developers concerned will bebanned from the network, the CEO informed.
除了讲解两篇文章的大意以及常用词组句型之外，更重要的是引起孩子们的的思考：
1、是网络科技发展的弊端我们国内特别突出么？网络平台数据泄露或不法分子利用平台进行非法勾当，是国内外皆有的情况，说明当今科技的发展是全球人民都需要思考的事情，不仅只是某国人民。
2、是企业出现问题简单粗暴关停就是解决之道？滴滴这类网络平台明明可以依靠技术解决问题（facebook在事件之后对自己的软件全面检查），却因为价值观问题不作为，或者因噎废食（suspended a car-pooling service）直接关停顺风车业务。
3、是企业就应该利益至上？企业，无论实体企业还是网络平台，都肩负不可推卸的社会责任，而不仅只是趋利个体。滴滴作为一个网络平台，同样也是一个网络环境下的“新型”交通运输企业（transportation enterprise），其赚钱的同时怎么能够忽略对公众的社会责任呢？如果在第一次出现受害者的时候提高重视，就可以避免第二次的伤害。
4、是大数据时代，网络平台的法制建设要不断完善。数据信息泄露问日日益严重，大到可能影响大选，小到影响个人正常工作生活。法律也要与时俱进，新环境形势下就要有相应的制约，重罚之下必有改进。
5、是竞争机制的必要性。一个好的商业环境里，存在竞争能够促进行业更好更健康的发展。
计算机科学，带来了社会的变革，人类生活方式、思考方式的改变，对人类社会有着巨大贡献。但同时，也存在许多政策空白和人文伦理问题。研究人员、发明者在创造、创新一样事物的时候，是否只需要负责创新，而不管创新事物可能带来的影响？我们继续学习节选文章3。
In the midst of growing public concern overartificial intelligence (AI), privacy and the use of data, Brent Hecht has acontroversial proposal: the computer-science community should change itspeer-review process to ensure that researchers disclose any possible negativesocietal consequences of their work in papers, or risk rejection.
The FCA is part of the Association forComputing Machinery (ACM) in New York City, the world's largest computingsociety. It, too, is making changes to encourage researchers to considersocietal impacts: on 17 July, it published an updated version of its ethicscode, last redrafted in 1992. The guidelines call on researchers to be alert tohow their work can influence society, take steps to protect privacy andcontinually reassess technologies whose impact will change over time, such asthose based in machine learning.
通过这个选段，我们可以了解到美国计算机科学领域已经在做人文伦理思考，并使用一定的方法来推动科技人员思考自己的研究行为带来的社会影响。那么，我们呢？如果上这堂课的孩子们，有一天成为了程序人员、计算机科学领域的工作人员，是否应该想到，自己不仅仅是个“程序猿”，更是一个“社会人”?大到企业、政府，小到我们每一个人，身上都有社会责任。科技在改变我们的生活，如果出现弊端，我们应该思考如何利用科技减轻或解决不良影响。滴滴让人们打车获得便利，当出现问题时，粗暴关停只是重回过去，于事无补！而反思自己存在的问题、完善系统，加强出行安全的技术提升，哪怕做不到一键报警，至少可以在已有客户投诉司机不良行为的时候，通过不派单的方式来制止一条年轻生命在家人朋友眼前殒命！
人，毕竟不是冰冷的程序代码，如果你的心有温度，你代码就会有温度！
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