[bluefirebrand]

You just described the major plotline of the movie Gattaca.

We watched and discussed that movie in my Ethics of Engineering course in university.

Kind of ironic to me that the movie they used to try and teach me how not to use engineering for unethical purposes may be coming true today.

Edit: Wiki page for the movie if anyone's curious: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca

Pretty good movie from what I recall. Some good discussions around ethics that came out of it.

[salawat]

I mean, everything poignant from my Ethics of Comp Sci has become status quo nowadays.

Using computers to generate imagery that is then deployed duplicitously by the person who asked for profit? Yup.

Ubiquitous surveillance and geofencing? Yep.

Artificial constructs for remote deployment of lethal weaponry? Yup.

Poisoning of the well of knowledge to make it more likely that one particular source gets visited rather than another? Yep.

Attempts by monied interests to divest themselves from the implied responsibility to hire in society through increased mechanization? Yep.

To be frank, I'm starting to take Ethics courses as societal statements of intent nowadays.