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"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department," said Wernher von Braun, the pioneer rocket
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department," said Wernher von Braun, the pioneer rocket
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"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department," said Wernher von Braun, the pioneer rocket scientist who worked after 1945, with equal enthusiasm, for NASA. Now a rather different mathematician, Hannah Fry, has called for a Hippocratic Oath for scientists and technologists to help them carry constantly in their minds the ethical consequences of their work. This is a proposal that deserves serious consideration: if it achieves nothing else, it will help to dispel the idea that technologies like software development are in themselves morally neutral, so that ethics, or morality, can be dealt with by someone else. Those who send the rockets up need to think carefully about where they might come down.
There are three obvious issues with her plan. The first is "Whose ethics? Which rationality?" There is no single, universal code of ethics to which all scientists around the world subscribe and the wars of the 20th century show how quickly many could be recruited to weapons research in the name of defending civilisation. And absolute pacifism has not been a feature of earlier efforts at scientific ethics. The philosopher Karl Popper proposed in 1969 an oath for all students of science; even then, he could, and did, justify some work on nuclear weapons.
The second problem is the extreme difficulty of foreseeing the uses to which pure research can be put. There have been a few occasions in recent times when scientists have drawn back from research until some at least of the ethical consequences of its application have become clearer: the suspension of genetic engineering in the Asilomar conference is the most celebrated. But fundamental research has uses far beyond the imagination of the people who carry it out. No one could blame Alan Turing for YouTube’s role in stirring up extremism.
Beyond this horizon of ignorance appears what might be called a horizon of influence: any one individual can only accomplish a limited amount compared to the forces of states and huge businesses. Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the web, is horrified by some of the ways in which it has developed but he has been powerless to stop them. It’s true that collective action can have effects, but these are limited. A revulsion among the workers at Google has so far stopped the company from cooperating with the US immigration service. It has not stopped its YouTube algorithms from corrupting politics in Brazil. Any effective moral action must come from corporations as a whole, not just some of their workers.
But for all these drawbacks, this is still a worthwhile idea. The choice between individual and collective ethics is not either-or. Both are needed. The dominant ideal of the last decades has been boundless selfishness, both individual and corporate. Whatever helps to put limits on that is not just desirable but essential.
The Asilomar conference is mentioned in the text to indicate _
选项
A、the hard effort to implement a genetic engineering project
B、the necessity to focus on the ethical effect of science
C、the full control over the uses of fundamental research
D、Alan Turing’s responsibility for provoking extremism
答案
B
解析
根据题干关键信息The Asilomar conference定位至第三段第二句。该句提到,近几年,已经出现好几次科学家退出研究的事例,相关研究至少要等到一些研究应用的伦理后果变得更加清晰之后才能继续,其中最受关注的就是阿西洛马会议上对基因工程相关研究的暂停。由此可知,一些科学研究应用的伦理后果亟待引起关注。选项[B]the necessity to focus on the ethical effect of science“关注科学伦理效应的必要性”与此意思相符,故为正确答案。
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