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The article covers ethical considerations when developing computer-based safety-critical systems where human lives can be at stake.

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Computers have the potential to injure and kill humans and engineers must take this into account when this is possible.

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The article resulted from a keynote talk at a conference held in Athens, Greece, hence the references to Aristotle.

Professor Jonathan P Bowen
London South Bank University

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This page is a summary of: The ethics of safety-critical systems, Communications of the ACM, April 2000, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/332051.332078.
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