[GauntletWizard]

I took the same professional ethics course as you in school (Hi from another RIT anime nerd), and I found that even by mid 2000s, most people coming into the program openly mocked the lessons of Therac-25 and the Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse as heavyhanded, but a disturbing few viewed these as lessons in how you could cut corners and avoid getting charged.

Google used to have ethicists ethicists and a culture of don't be evil. They were fired by the AI ethicists, who for the most part were among that latter group - Rationalists who were supremely good at rationalizing their choices rather than making good ones.

I don't think that any of the current efforts at regulation are going to work. The latter culture has taken over the institutions, and that's why you see so many baying for the institutions to be taken down.