Should computer science researchers disclose negative social consequences?
I get that they&#x27;re trying to encourage ethical behavior, but this proposal seems incredibly arrogant.  It implicitly states that computer programmers are, as a field, competent to predict how a technology will impact society.  Whether or not ANY field is competent to do that is questionable, but whether or not computer programmers are able to do that is not questionable; it&#x27;s clearly incorrect.  We don&#x27;t have the background, training, skillset, or in some cases even personality to be making insightful predictions about how society will respond to and be impacted by a new technology.  I&#x27;m not saying the person advocating it is a bad person, but this particular proposal is arrogant (and founded on an incorrect understanding of what kind of thing programmers are good at).