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by MereInterest 3046 days ago
Your comparisons are rather odd, given that most universities do have ethics requirements for the sciences, focused on examples from the field in question.

Biology: Do not repeat the Tuskegee experiements. Do not be the next Andrew Wakefield.

Physics: Do not falsify data. Do not plagiarize results. Do not play fast and loose with statistics.

I can definitely see corresponding examples being made for issues that affect CS.

CS: Do not collect customer information that is not needed for the task at hand. Do not describe your machine-learning model as being free of bias based on race/sex, if you was trained with real-world data that may be biased.

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The examples from other fields offered here relate purely to the academic field, while one of your CS examples is very much related to software as a business.

Biology as a business: don't try to patent the world's food supply.

Physics as a business: consider whether your client is building a weapon out of your work and whom they might use it against.

Chemical engineering: If you don't know what you're doing, your reactor will blow up and kill people. Here are some cases where people didn't know what they were doing. Don't be like them.